An interactive exhibition about early modern fortune telling

Can the magical methods of the past foretell your future?

A fun, interactive exhibition that explores methods of fortune telling in early modern Britain (c.1500-1800). Forming part of the Resonate Festival’s Amazing Women roadshow, the exhibition looks at fascinating stories of female magical practitioners, and investigates how accounts of astrologers, witches, cunning-folk and ‘gypsy’ fortune-tellers reflect past ideas about gender roles.

The exhibition covers seventeen fortune-telling methods, including astrology, dice-rolling, palmistry, dream interpretation, unearthing stalks of kale, scrying, conjuration, reading animal bones, and the ‘sieve and shears’.

If you want to know the prospects for your health, career, romantic life or anything else, we (may) have the answers!

There is also a ‘choose your own adventure’ experience that allows visitors to use the interactive stations to develop the story of an early modern woman.

Free event, drop-in anytime. No need to register, but you can register here for updates.

(Aged 8+)