Скачать или смотреть ✏️A trip to explore & learn- Derwent Pencil Museum, Keswick, Cumbria

The Derwent Pencil Museum and Cafe in Keswick, Cumbri.
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📝A unique place to explore and learn the humble beginnings and the amazing discovery of lead pencil. A must place to visit for all ages.

📝Keswick, the alleged birthplace of the first pencil is now home to a museum dedicated to the pencil industry. Patrons enter the Derwent Pencil Museum through a replica of a graphite mine, a central source of materials for the industry over three centuries ago. Visitors can then follow a journey of the simple writing instrument, from the discovery of graphite to modern day production. A selection of activities awaits including discovering secret World War II pencils with hidden maps. The museum also runs a series of artists in residence workshops, with people like Beverley Haines, Valerie Woods and Karen Coulson demonstrating their talent to the students.

📝Unique exhibit- The World War II Secret Map Pencil. This unique pencil has one of four different maps rolled up inside and a miniature compass hidden under the rubber. Several text panels, a video and a display case presented the story of Charles Fraser-Smith from MI5 - the original ‘Q’ as featured in the James Bond films - who in 1942 tasked certain staff members at the pencil factory to a secret mission. The map pencils created were given to RAF pilots to aid their escape behind enemy lines. I found this so fascinating that I was even tempted to buy a replica one in the Museum’s shop.

📝Other highlights included the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pencil - one of only two ever made with the Queen owning the second, a cabinet of pencil sharpeners collected by one person over 50 years, and a number of miniature graphite sculptures depicting numbers, letters and shapes carved into pencil points by artist Jasenko from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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