Dorich House Museum

We are delighted to announce the programme for Dorich House Museum’s Winter Weekend 2024. Join us for a tour, music concert or craft activity – or simply stop by the museum to see latest exhibition Here, Somewhere. You can also enjoy coffee and cake in our Studio Café, browse our museum shop and enjoy the beautiful Christmas tree in our Modelling Studio.

Highlights will include:

A special music concert performed by Kingston University students. This drop in concert will be held in the museum’s first floor Modelling Studio. The acoustic programme is inspired by the students’ responses to Dorich House and features a line-up of flute, violin and voice.

Join one of our wonderful tour guides for an hour-long visit where you’ll learn more about the collections, former occupants and building.

Join us for an enjoyable and relaxing workshop to create a unique Christmas decoration.

Metal embossing is the art of creating patterns or designs in metal sheets using a stylus or other tool. Taking inspiration from the museum’s collections, practicing artist Anna Milgrom will guide you to design, emboss, shape and adorn your decoration – creating a unique piece ready to take home and hang on your Christmas tree. This session suitable for ages 10 and above.  All materials are provided.

Exhibition | Here, Somewhere

Running until 01 March 2025

This evolving collaborative project by multimedia storyteller Honey Birch, is a reinvention of Dorich House as a queer home, questioning its history and imagining a simultaneous queer future. A selection of archival materials, pointing to the supposed lavender marriage of Dora Gordine and Richard Hare – hinted at by former friends and acquaintances of the couple – is displayed throughout the building.  A series of interventions will further queer the space throughout the exhibition’s run. The installation of two domestic objects; a bed and curtains. One of intimacy, the other of privacy. Double Bed speculates on Gordine and Hare’s bedroom life, presenting their sleeping arrangement as a foot-to-foot affair. Kiss Me in the Straight Club – On Curtains recollects Birch’s night out in a straight club, shrouding Dorich House’s living space in queer storytelling, emphasising the balance of joy and fear that is experienced when outside of the sanctity of queer community.

Our last public open day this year will be Friday 20 December.   The museum will re-open on Thursday 23 January 2025.

If you would like more information about any of our events, or require assistance with booking, please contact us at 020 8417 5515 or email dorichhousemuseum@kingston.ac.uk