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A Golden Age of Summer – Exhibition
26th July 2025 - 14th September 2025
A Golden Age of Summer
A temporary exhibition at Ely Museum from 26 July – 14 September 2025
You are invited to a summer of relaxation and play at Ely Museum!
Inspired by the long, lazy, summer days of the Edwardian period, our summer exhibition encourages you to linger and lounge: play at a picnic, sit with a book or take a selfie in our boat on the river. Throughout the summer we’ll have games and activities in the museum and courtyard as well as immersive play in the temporary exhibition itself.
The Edwardian period in the popular imagination is a time of sunshine and day trips and garden parties, sandwiched between the strict morals of the Victorian Age and the devastation of the First World War. Building on this rose-tinted dream of the past and drawing from photographs in the museum collection, we’ve created an immersive space to come and recreate the relaxation of a golden summer at the start of the twentieth century.
We are delighted that our summer exhibition features artwork by Laura Pearson-Clark of Art in the Burrow.