The Ryder Cup Heritage Exhibition
Friday 20th April to Thursday 28th June 2012
Verulamium Museum
Ryder Cup Heritage Exhibition at Verulamium Museum. Pictures Jan Kruger/Getty Images
The Ryder Cup Heritage Exhibition tells the story of golf’s most famous tournament. A series of fascinating items and memorabilia is on display, charting the iconic golf event from its earliest beginnings as a friendly match between British and American PGA professionals through to the impact made by one of St Albans most illustrious sons, Samuel Ryder who donated the famous gold trophy.
The exhibition features personal items from past players as well as rarely seen photographs while a series of specially created display cases and graphic story boards recount the history of the matches, covering its growth from a friendly competition to the one of the biggest sporting events in the world.
The Ryder Cup has a rich history and Samuel Ryder and St Albans where he nurtured his love of golf plays a special part in that history.
In opening The Ryder Cup Heritage Exhibition, Mayor Aislinn Lee said: “It is a great honour for St Albans to host this exhibition. This was Sam Ryder’s home and he became one of the most famous sons of this city. He was a social reformer who built up a business selling penny packets of seeds, a great benefactor who used his money to help the working people of this town. And most importantly we remember him for providing the most iconic trophy in golf, if not in sport.”
St Albans Mayor Councillor Aislinn Lee, Sandy Jones, PGA Chief Executive & Ken Brown, former Ryder Cup player
Sandy Jones summed up Ryder with two words “visionary and benevolence”.
“It is fitting this exhibition starts here in St Albans before travelling around the UK and Europe before eventually making its way to Gleneagles in 2014,” he said. “Sam left this legacy and I think he would be proud of what he started. I think he would be proud of the great iconic game it has become today, I think he would be proud of this exhibition and proud it starts here in St Albans as it was his home and he would want to give something back to this city through the trophy he created.”
Ryder only took to golf late in life on the advice of his doctor and quickly discovered a passion for the game at Verulum Golf Club game under the tutelage of Abe Mitchell. And when he witnessed an early friendly match between Great Britain and America at Wentworth, Ryder became a prime mover in making it a regular affair and donated the striking gold cup that will again be the focus of attention when Europe defend it against the United States at Medinah, Chicago, later this year.
ODEON JOURNEY: The story of a cinema, 1908-1995
Memories, interviews and the history of the much-loved Odeon Cinema on London Road, St Albans.
Friday 19th May to Sunday 3rd September 2012
Museum of St Albans
This exhibition tells the story of the Odeon’s journey from 1908-1995, through the words of the people who worked and visited there.
There has been a cinema on the site in London Road since 1908; it played host to a range of different entertainments, from film and dances to performances by some of the world’s leading rock ‘n roll bands, including the Rolling Stones, Cliff Richard and Bo Diddly.
Look out for Odeon Journey events in June and July for children’s film making and craft activities.
This project has been managed by St Albans Civic Society, in partnership with St Albans Museums and St Albans Arts Sport and Health.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
Resort
Friday 30 March to Sunday 10 June 2012
UH Gallery
Museum of St Albans
RESORT is the result of two years spent photographing life at Butlin's Southcoast World at Bognor Regis in West Sussex by leading British documentary photographer Anna Fox.
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UH Galleries at the Museum of St Albans
The University of Hertfordshire Galleries’ space at the Museum of St Albans is located in the first room on the right as you enter the museum. UH Galleries holds five exhibitions per year in this space, including the annual Hertfordshire Open Exhibition.
UH Galleries are among the most innovative contemporary art spaces in the UK, and have been responsible for a programme of internationally successful and critically acclaimed exhibitions. With two dynamic galleries – one within the Museum of St Albans and the other, the Art and Design Gallery, located on the University’s College Lane campus in Hatfield – we present international contemporary art to the local community and wider audiences, in both traditional and challenging ways.
Our Aims
UH Galleries aim to offer artists and makers from all disciplines in the early stages of their professional careers significant exhibition and associated publishing opportunities. We hope to provide local audiences with the opportunity to engage with contemporary art and discover an array of surprises and perhaps hidden interests in our varied and vibrant programme of exhibitions.
Working with the Local Community: Hertfordshire Open Exhibition
The Hertfordshire Open Exhibition has marked itself out over the last eleven years as the definitive annual showcase for local artistic talent and last year over one hundred artists from across Hertfordshire submitted work. Taking place during the month of December at the Museum of St Albans, this exhibition provides local artists with a valuable opportunity to display their work. The first prize of a solo exhibition with UH Galleries, as well as other substantial prizes, represents our investment in the artistic life of Hertfordshire’s wider artistic community.
Telephone: +44 (0)1707 284290
Email: uhgalleries@herts.ac.uk
Postal address:
UH Galleries, Lindop Building, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
Website: www.go.herts.ac.uk/uhgalleries
