Taking cover in a Tube Station during a London air raid, Walter Bayes, 1918
Are you interested in the Home Front during the First World War?
Imperial War Museums has a collection of fantastic artworks depicting Home Front
activities and we need your help to find out more about them.
Join history buffs, curators and art historians at Yorkshire Museum where we will be exploring, discussing and digging into some of these fascinating works. Through discussion and research we aim to solve some of the mysteries of IWM’s collection and build a clearer understanding of the activities, people and places depicted.
Everyone is welcome and no expert knowledge is needed. Materials and laptops will be provided, but feel free to bring your own mobile devices. All the information gathered will be added to the artworks on Historypin.com to allow these works to be discovered, explored and further enriched.
Date: Wednesday 6 November 2013
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location: The Hospitium, Museum Gardens, Museum St, York, North Yorkshire, YO1 7FR
RSVP to historypin@wearewhatwedo.org by 5 November 2013.
We have limited space, so please RSVP to guarantee your place.
Refreshments will be provided.
This event is part of Putting Art on the Map, a collaboration between Imperial War
Museums, Historypin and the University of Edinburgh to invite the public to enrich
IWM’s First World War art collection.
If you can’t make it to the event, you can still explore the artworks, add your comments and help solve some of the mysteries of the collection.