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The New Dartmouth Museum Mayflower Exhibition
premiere of the new Mayflower film in the auditorium. This informative film was followed by a short presentation on the building of the Mayflower model, which is now part of the new Dartmouth Museum exhibition. The Mayflower exhibition is housed in new space acquired by the museum in the Butterwalk. The minute you walk in the door, the twelve-foot replica model of the Pilgrim Fathers’ Mayflower, together with display panels and audio-visual presentation really takes your breath away. Spencer Wigley, Chairman of the Projects, said “After over 4,500 hours and five years of effort, the exhibition is a triumph for the two teams that have been working on the project, one helping Capt. Ian Kirkwood with the build of the replica model and the other designing and putting together the audio – visual presentation and many other parts of the exhibition. Walk around the other side and the interior of the ship is
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revealed and lit. You can see the way the ship was built, the way she was steered and how the anchor was raised. You can also see the sacks of stores and barrels of water and wine, the cannons, galley, and the passengers and crew. These figures were made by a world-renowned maker of museum quality manikins. The Pilgrims are signing the famous Compact, crew are cooking in the galley, turning the capstan, steering the ship, tending the animals or simply milling around. This wonderful new exhibition will be a permanent visitor attraction for Dartmouth all the year round. It will be interesting to locals and visitors alike and an educational tool for all ages.
he new exhibition was launched in late October to around 90 VIP guests at the Flavel, who enjoyed cocktails and canapés before being treated to the
The Exhibition features:
• Audio-visual presentations of the Mayflower story and the story of the build of the Model, created by an 18-year-old student of South Devon TV Training Academy.
• A large new painting of Dartmouth in 1620, the year the Pilgrims visited Dartmouth on their way to the New World, by the artist David Marsh. It has been researched in depth and stands alongside two copies of maps that we know were drawn up in 1619 for a legal case. It is accompanied by an explanatory book from the artist – “Life in Dartmouth in 1620”.
• 10 illustrated floor-to-ceiling panels with details of the complicated and multi-faceted story. There are panels on the Mayflower women, the overlooked group who kept the whole venture together, and the Mayflower Compact itself, said to be the inspiration for the US constitution.
• A mock-up of a carpenter’s cabin with tools of the time, a sleeping figure and view of the sea through the porthole.
• Other artefacts, paintings and drawings.
Images courtesy of Anna Potgieter.
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