What's happening at the Tower of London in June 2011?

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What's happening at the Tower of London in June 2011?

There are plenty of great of events and activites this June!
Royal Beasts at the Tower of London

Press release

Don’t forget HRP membership is the most cost-effective way to visit our palaces, giving unlimited free entry to all five palaces for a whole year. Prices start at only £56.00 for family membership.Visit http://www.hrp.org.uk/ for information about membership!

EXHIBITIONS

NEW EXHIBITION!
Power House (in partnership with the Royal Armouries)
Tower of London
Open now     
Discover the stories and personalities behind the major organisations of state, who took care of Royal business behind the mighty Tower walls, from 1100 to the present day, in a new permanent exhibition opening on the White Tower’s top floor.

The exhibition will showcase the roles of the major organisations that provided the bedrock of England’s power throughout the centuries. Great institutions include the Ordnance Office, Ordnance Survey, the Royal Mint, Record Office, the Jewel House, Menagerie and Royal Observatory. Power House will also put the spotlight on other Tower of London functions, ranging from royal residence to state prison.

 
NEW EXHIBITION!
Royal Beasts (in partnership with the Royal Armouries)
Tower of London
Opens 28 May (Family press preview 25 May 2010, 09.00-13.00)
This May the unusual and intriguing story of the Tower of London’s imperial Royal Menagerie will be brought to life. Royal Beasts explores the history, spectacle and tragedy of the Tower menagerie. Founded during the reign of King John in the early 1200s, it became a regular feature of the Tower for over 600 years!

The new exhibition will be an opportunity for visitors to encounter a diverse cast of former Tower residents through arresting modern animal sculpture by artist Kendra Haste and new interactive sensory displays. The recently restored north wall walk and the never before opened Brick Tower will host some of the displays, including sights, sounds and smells of some of the animals!

Fit for a King (in partnership with the Royal Armouries)
Tower of London
Daily
Discover 500 years of spectacular arms and armour worn by kings and royal princes in this stunning exhibition in the White Tower. Learn about the personalities, power and physical size of England’s kings, from the Tudors, and the notorious Henry VIII, to today’s royal family.

FREE iPhone and iPod Touch app
Escape from the Tower app
Tower of London
Meet the prisoners (virtually of course!)
Bring your iPhone or iPod Touch to the Tower and you can help the virtual prisoners escape from the real locations they were held.

Can you help four worthy prisoners escape from the infamous Tower of London be re-enacting their real-life events?

Play Escape from the Tower, our exciting new free app for iPhone and iPod Touch, and re-enact some of the Tower’s most famous escapes during your visit.

Players who complete all four missions can register their score and will be eligible for entry into a prize draw to win free entry to all the palaces!

Escape from the Tower app is free and available for download on iPhone and iPod Touch only                                                                                           
The app can be downloaded at home or on site at the Tower wi-fi hotspot in front of the Tower shop at the main gate.

EVENTS

A soldier’s experience
Tower of London
22 April – 31 October (Weekend and Bank Holidays, excluding 1-2 October)
Step back to the mid-nineteenth century and hear Sergeant Gowing of the Royal Fusiliers describe his recent experiences in the Crimean War.

MAY HALF-TERM
Royal Beasts
28 May – 5 June
11.00-16.00
Join us in various locations around the site to learn more about the Tower’s role as a Menagerie.  Take part in beastly craft activities such as animal badge making and mask making, and create your own souvenir to take home.

There will be a puppet storytelling session at various times throughout the day, followed by the chance for young visitors to make their own animal finger puppets.

Families will also be able to pick up our new Royal Beasts trail from the Welcome Centre. Follow the trail to embark on an animal hunt, learn fun and frightening facts and imagine what life must have been like for the resident royal beasts.

TOWER TRADITION
The Beating the Bounds
2 June, 18.30-19.30
Witness the Beating the Bounds ceremony around the Tower of London, Thursday 2 June, starting at 18.30. A party from the Tower of London, led by the Resident Governor and including several colourful Yeoman Warders (Beefeaters) and local children, will undertake the ancient ceremony ‘Beating the Bounds’. Performed every three years on Ascension Day, this event preserves the core of a centuries-old boundary dispute between the Tower and its nearest neighbours.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity as you won’t get another chance until 2014!


 

 

 

 

Notes to editors

All events and materials are included in the general admission ticket price for each palace unless stated otherwise that a separate ticket is needed.

All events are subject to change, please check www.hrp.org.uk for up-to-date information on prices, opening times and details on event booking.

For further information about events and listings please contact Historic Royal Palaces Press Office on 020 3166 6166 or email press@hrp.org.uk or visit http://www.hrp.org.uk/  

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Prices from 1 March 2011

Palace

Adult

Conc

Child

Family

Historic Royal Palaces Memebrship (free admission to the palaces for a year)   

£43.00 (1 adult)

£65.00 (2 adults)

n/a    

n/a

£56 (1 adult)

£83 (2 adults)

Tower of London*

£19.80    

£17.05

£10.45

£55.00

Hampton Court Palace*

£15.95

£13.20

£8.00

£43.45

Kensington Palace*

£13.75

£12.10

£6.90

TBC

Banqueting House*

£5.50

£4.40

Free

n/a

Kew Palace*

£5.83

£4.95

Free

n/a


*All individual ticket prices include a voluntary donation

NB: ticket for Kew Palace does not include admission ticket to Kew Gardens which must also be purchased.

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We receive no funding from the Government or the Crown, so we depend on the support of our visitors, members, donors, volunteers and sponsors.

These palaces are owned by The Queen on behalf of the nation, and we manage them for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

We believe in four principles.  Guardianship: giving these palaces a future as long and valuable as their past. Discovery: encouraging people to make links with their own lives and today’s world.  Showmanship: doing everything with panache. Independence: having our own point of view and finding new ways to do our work.                                                                                                                    http://www.hrp.org.uk/      registered charity number 1068852 -ends-

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