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Casting a Mask

Casting a Mask
Start Date: 06 Sep 2008
End Date: 06 Sep 2008
Event type: Activity
Age Range: All ages
Time: 10.30am to 3pm
Costs: Not Known
Website: http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/cromwell
Contact telephone: 01480 375830
Building: Cromwell Museum
Contact email: cromwellmuseum@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Organiser's website: http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/cromwell
Venue: Cromwell Museum
Street: Grammar School Walk
Town: Huntingdon
County: Cambridgeshire
Postcode: PE29 3LF
Description
Casting a mask at Cromwell Museum.   An important part of the funeral process was the creation of a death mask, from which the funeral effigy of Cromwell was made. The process of casting a mask will be demonstrated to show just how the Cromwell death mask was made.