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A tour of Goddesses in the world's oldest museum with award-winning writer, broadcaster and priestess Bernadette Vallely. All Welcome. Limited spaces. Advance tickets advisable.See the treasures of the Ashmolean with new eyes in this special walking tour to meet ancient Goddesses and priestesses from Greece, Rome, Egypt and beyond. Learn about Diana and her worship in London and spend time with Al'Lat, the ancient Palestinian Goddess of fertility, love and protection.
Meet at 1.15pm inside the entrance to the museum. The tour will be in two halves, with a break for tea and discussion in the café. The tour finishes at 4.30pm and the museum closes at 5pm.
Bernadette Vallely has given private tours in the British Museum since 2022, bringing her knowledge, research and Goddess veneration to share with people. This is the first time she has led a tour at the Ashmolean, the world's oldest museum. She is generously offering this event as a fund-raiser for Oxford Community Goddess Temple.
Praise for Bernadette's tours:
“A wonderful insight.” Clare Downie, Hertfordshire
"well-informed, researched, and conveyed with insight, intuition and passion.” Chris RJ & family, South Wales
"Opened up a whole new way of experiencing museums for me" Jackie Singer, Oxford
Bernadette Vallely was the founder of the London Goddess Temple on 21st December 2006, currently with 800 members. She is offering this event in support of Oxford Community Goddess Temple - a grassroots intitative to set up an inclusive and modern focus for Goddess research and celebration in Oxford.
Bernadette Vallely is author of the original study, The London Goddess tracing goddess worship in Roman London. Her recent and most detailed study area is the iconography of the decorated terra sigillata pottery from Roman Britain. She has written and produced an eco radio show, The Gaia Show, in west London, and has previously taken part in television, radio and podcast interviews for many decades including R4 Woman’s Hour, BBC Gloria Hunniford & World in Action and contributed to the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Original reports include Thames, Sacred River, and Sacred Journey, Discovering the Goddess in Egypt.
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Ashmolean Museum Oxford, McDonald's, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3, United Kingdom,Oxford, Oxfordshire
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