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60th anniversary celebration being marked with commemoration ceremony and seaplane flypast at 12.28pm on Wednesday in East Cowes.
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The Classic Boat Museum Trust is staffed and supported entirely by volunteers so please take this opportunity to come along and learn how you might help.
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Use of the former Classic Boat Museum is just one of the items on Tuesday's agenda.
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Over the past few weeks, the Classic Boat Museum has learned that it faces serious risks to its future. New, low-rent premises are required if this award-winning museum is to continue to exist.
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The Classic Boat Museum will be given unwanted tins of paint disposed of at Lynnbottom Household Waste and Recycling Centre.
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The permanent home for the Classic Boat Museum has now been made 'fit for purpose' and a grand public opening is planned for Spring 2018. Find out how you can help make that happen.
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The first of its kind in the UK, the Travelling Museum isn’t a dusty old bus with boring objects – get ready for actors playing the part of eccentric museum owners, as they encourage you to uncover remarkable stories of kings, inventors, speed freaks and artists.
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We can't wait to see what all the curators at the museums and galleries across the Isle of Wight have in store for us all, as several Hidden Heroes exhibitions launch this weekend.
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Isle of Wight Hidden Heroes artist, Hannah George will be holding a free family drop-in workshop at Dimbola Museum and Galleries in Freshwater Bay this Saturday, with another next month in East Cowes.
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The wonderful Classic Boat Museum - which has a gallery in East Cowes and a soon-to-open Museum in Cowes - are very keen to recruit new volunteers to help in a variety of roles.
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There are another three expert talks at Quay Arts as part of the Isle of Wight Hidden Heroes project, along with a panel discussion, several exhibitions around the Island and a way for you to share your Hidden Heroes.
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In the United States today, they have a national holiday celebrating the birth of their maritime industry. We take a look at one American who had a big impact on the industry on the Isle of Wight back in the 1920s.
