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🗺️ Where Are We Wednesday?

Hint: If you see this, it means Go!
Painting of a grassy field with people playing sports and a building nestled in the trees.
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🌍 World Clean Up Day

Let’s look after our community. By keeping it clean we keep it beautiful and protect it for future generations…

📸 Leo John Davies.
The wooden bridge at Langham Pond surrounded by reeds. A tree reaching out across Virginia Water Lake. The sunset illuminating a buck at Windsor Great Park. Wild flowers bouncing out at the Runnymede Meadows.
September 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On this day in 2020…
Image: Close up render of coronavirus. Text: 25 Million Covid Cases world-wide... On the 30th August 2020, the amount of global recorded Covid-19 cases topped 25 million. How did Lockdown hit Egham? Image: Yellow ‘COVID 19 Testing Centre’ direction sign. Text: A Country-Wide Community Like many places across the country and across the world, our community suffered many hardships during the Covid-19 pandemic, not least the loss of livelihoods and loved ones. This is how our area rallied together to respond...
August 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🗺️ Where Are We Wednesday?

Hint: An island sitting beside the land of picnics and politics…
Painting, Where Are We Wednesday
August 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Guess The Artefact 🔎

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August 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🚨 We’re Back 🚨

Check out our latest Explore Our Area…
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August 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🎨 A Community Exhibition Coming to Our Museum…

From the 22nd July, our museum will be hosting an exhibition of beautiful local art, both historic and contemporary, as part of a collaboration with the Egham Watercolour Painting Group and the Lyne Watercolour Arts Group!
July 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Thursday Thoughts….

What would you add to your own Magna Carta?
Seal of King John over the text of the Magna Carta. Text reads: What would you add?
July 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Today is the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation…
June 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🎥 Sir Felton buried in Egham but lived a life of action…

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June 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Can you guess where this is in our area?

Hint: It takes its name from another ‘Great’ story… 🔍
June 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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🎥 Fact Friday…

Learn about these mini monoliths, found in our area!

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🍷 Coal & Wine Tax PostLearn more about these surprising mini monoliths…Did you know?Our museum loves to share history facts and forgotten stories from across our interesting area!Follow for more Fact Fridays.🎥 Caitlin Addison & Leo John Davies📍 Egham, Staines-Upon-Thames, Surrey#history #museum #egham #interesting #runnymede
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June 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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📜 Happy Magna Carta Day!

To celebrate, let’s take a look at the most important story in our area…

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June 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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#WhereAreWeWednesday

Welcome back to Where Are We Wednesday… think you got it?
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Two men stood outside the front of a shop.
June 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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#VEDay
On Monday, our team took the day out at the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial to commemorate the sacrifice of those who took part in the Second World War as well as reflect on how our area was impacted.
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Elise and Rosie have been out in the community recently, hosting a fun and fact filled arts and craft workshop.
Rosie and Elise gathering valuable community insight at the Egham Library.
April 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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One for the history books…
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Still one of our most prized possessions 👇.
April 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Once a winner, always a winner
#MuseumOlympics #WhatsNextForTeamBarnsley…
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You don't really see the Easter egg and mug combo anymore do you?

It's a bit belated but we'd like to say thank you to @theeghammuseum.bsky.social for hosting online competitions in 2024.

We were winners in the #MuseumOlympics and runners up at Halloween
A photograph taken in the galleries of Experience Barnsley with an Easter egg in our Museum Olympics mug.
April 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🎨🖌️ It’s World Art Day…

Take a tour through our area with these selected artworks that may show Egham in a very different way to modern eyes.

1) Watercolour of Eastern Entrance to Egham in 1668.
Watercolour of Eastern Entrance to Egham in 1668.
April 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Explore Our Area…
The Thames at Runnymede 🎥

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April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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🚨🎥 NEW VIDEO

Check out our latest Fact Friday on the land that was almost lost to time… 🌱

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April 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🚨🎥 NEW VIDEO!

It’s Lutyens’ birthday, let’s celebrate with the Runnymede National Trust…

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March 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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#WallWednesday
⚖️ Landscape of Liberty
Illustration of the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial Text reads: A Modern Monumental Landscape
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Our museum will remain closed in April, including over the Easter Holidays, whilst we continue the next phase of our gallery redevelopment.
Sparkly Egham Museum logo. Text reads: Our museum remain shut in April and throughout the Easter period. Please read below for more info...
March 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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🧸 It’s World Bear Day…
Photo of Fable the Teddy Bear on a green jumper. Text reads: World Bear Day Learn about the story of Virginia Water Library's favourite furry visitor!
March 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM