Three exhibitions are launching on Saturday 16th June, focusing on Worcestershire’s distant past. They are the culmination of the Lost Landscapes Project, celebrating over half a million years of the area’s prehistory, from the time our ancestors arrived until the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago. It is a joint project from Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service and Worcester Art gallery & Museum, funded by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England.
Ice Age @ Worcester Art Gallery & Museum
Running from the 16th June to 8th September 2018, this exhibition will showcase stunning and surprising Ice Age finds with a Worcestershire connection. Suitable for all ages.
Watch out for an early copy of the first geological map of the country, artefacts made over 300,000 years ago by the earliest humans to live in Worcestershire, and remains of extraordinary Ice Age creatures.
Over this enormous timespan there were many changes in the local environment, from woolly mammoths roaming the tundra in Bromsgrove, to cave lions stalking the riverbanks beneath Bredon Hill. Humans came and went with the warming and cooling of the climate.
Visit Ice Age and come face to face with a Neanderthal, crawl inside our Ice Age shelter, and meet Fluffy the Woolly Mammoth.
Mammoth tusk
Origins of Us @ The Hive, Worcester
Running from 16th June to 8th September 2018, this exhibition explores how our understanding of our place in the world has developed over two centuries of research and discovery.
It will examine our relationship with human species who walked this land before us, and the way our understanding of the Ice Age origins of the human story in Britain has developed from the 19th century to the present.
Through the Mists of Time @ The Hive
An immersive experience inspired by the evolution of humans towards the end of the last Ice Age that led to the birth of modern society. As part of the Lost Landscapes project, and funded through Arts Council England, there will be an audio-visual installation celebrating imagination and human ability to go beyond the here and now, constructing shared systems of beliefs and creating symbols, ceremonies and rituals.
Digital artists SDNA produce distinctive digital artworks and vibrant interactive experiences for a range of settings, from intimate small-scale pieces to ambitious projected installations for outdoor spaces and iconic buildings. We aim to extend the possibilities and reach of digital art by exploring the interaction between moving image, installation, virtual reality and live performance, and by collaborating with a diverse range of participants and audiences. www.movingimage.art
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