Join Amazing Grace 250 partners and performers for the final event to close this 250th anniversary year PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AT THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER & ST PAUL, OLNEY Book your free ticket via this link to the Museum’s Art Tickets site: Final Event of Amazing Grace 250 … Read more
On 9 July, a special event was held to launch the Amazing Grace Orchard, a new community orchard planted in Olney – the market town known as the ‘Home of Amazing Grace’. The Orchard, located by the Queens Canopy, marks the 250th anniversary of the internationally known hymn, which was written in the town by … Read more
Saturday 24th June 2023 saw the climax of Invisible Folk‘s ‘Grace Will Lead Me Home’ project with a performance at the Cowper & Newton Museum, featuring renowned UK Folk musicians Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne. The first half of the session was led by the Invisible Folk Band. Jon Bickley Diana Stone Milo Downs Bill … Read more
A part of the year of Amazing Grace, the challenge was to bring 250 voices together to perform a new song, written to mark the 250th anniversary of the hymn, Amazing Grace. On 17 June, 2023, Music Director, Craig McCleish met the challenge when 279 singers from 13 choirs joined together for this first public … Read more
New Friends, Flowers and Foliage In June, 5 pupils, accompanying staff and Governors from St Vincent’s Special School for Sensory Impairment and Other Needs, Liverpool, spent two days in Olney as part of Amazing Grace 250. Day 1 was Assembly at Olney Middle School to introduce themselves, followed by pancakes for brunch and a visit … Read more
Visit our exhibition about Sierra Leone and answer the quiz questions to get a toy! Free for children.
A new music commission (link to the announcement of the new commission in the Observer newspaper) created in response to the 250th anniversary of Amazing Grace has just been announced and we are delighted to share with you the story so far. Back in October 2019 when the Cowper & Newton Museum held the first … Read more
‘I am absolutely thrilled to be part of AG250: working in collaboration with celebrated composer and musician, Roderick Williams, the renown Chineke! ensemble – and dynamic project partners: The Stables and Cowper & Newton Museum. This project is my third collaboration with Williams. Previous collaborations include: Not Yet Here – a creative response to Beethoven’s … Read more
In late December 1772, Rev John Newton prepared his sermon in the attic study of his Vicarage home in Church Street, Olney. During his New Year’s Day morning service on the first of January 1773, the congregation at Newton’s parish church of St Peter & St Paul will have heard him give his sermon based … Read more
Our Museum building remains CLOSED. We are opening our gardens on limited entry. The Cowper & Newton Museum gardens will be open to welcome you on Wednesday 5th August 10.30 – 12.15 and Saturday 8th August 10.30 – 12.15
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