{"id":25904,"date":"2020-08-26T21:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25904"},"modified":"2020-08-26T21:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:54:11","slug":"museum-private-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25904","title":{"rendered":"Museum Private View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082512.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nI got an invitation to a private view at Abingdon Museum. The private view was to help test the booking system, and the museum Covid-19 secure procedures before the public arrives. I put on a face covering, and sanitised my hands. My booking details meant I could be contacted by track and trace if the need arose.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082509a.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nA one directional route has been created round the museum so that you can see all the exhibits and stay 2 meters apart.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082507.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nThe exhibition begins at the bun throwing and shows a selection of buns going back to Queen Victoria.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082515.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nThe route takes you by the old cross roads sign and waterways watering can.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082517.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nTheir are highlights like the Egyptian Vase, found in a garden off Lombard-Street and made in Egypt c 1250-60.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082513.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nThe route then takes you to the very oldest artifacts. Normally you start with the old and move towards any new exhibits and temporary exhibition.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082519.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Private View\" \/><br \/>\nAs at any good museum the route ends at the museum shop. Purchases can be made with contactless cards. There is a perspex screen between you and the person manning the desk.<\/p>\n<p>The museum reopens on September 5th. More details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon-museum-reopening\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon-museum-reopening<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an invitation to a private view at Abingdon Museum. The private view was to help test the booking system, and the museum Covid-19 secure procedures before the public arrives. I put on a face covering, and sanitised my hands. My booking details meant I could be contacted by track and trace if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}