Museum of Witchcraft Diary

Yesterday at 2.30, the Atlantis Bookshop in London, hosted a signing for Michael Howard's latest book, 'The Witches' Herbal'...

Shadwell Shams My attention was drawn to today's entry on the Spitalfields Life blog. It casts light on an item in the Museum's co...

We would very much like to wish all our readers the very best for 2014 and hope that you all had a restful and Happy Yuletide/Christmas/Holi...

We are soon to begin the process of Accreditation for the Museum. For those unfamiliar with the process, "Accreditation is the UK stand...

We don't normally put 'For Sale' pieces on the blog but we are making an exception as a good friend of ours has a lovely woods f...

Last Saturday, Simon Costin, Joyce Froome, Steve Patterson and Helen Cornish took part in an amulet workshop, ‘Cosmologies of Care’, at t...

A room has just become available for the AGM at the Wellington due to the person now staying with friends. If you're coming to the AGM b...

I couldn't resist putting this lovely photo of Barney & Twiglet on the blog. Their owners, who had made the special Halloween coats ...

The Museum of Witchcraft has a new manager – nothing else changes – it is the same company.   It is not moving for at least 5 years and all...

A comment was made about 'other reports' saying the museum is moving to Sussex or Dorset . Let us be clear that the museum is stayin...

Graham would like to announce that as of the 31st Oct 2013, he will retire as Director of the Museum of Witchcraft and Simon Costin has bee...

Why are witches often imagined as women? How did witch-hunters in 17th century Europe discover witches? Would you be prepared to stab a...

One has to wonder at the motives of certain people who are spreading more and more rumours about the museum's collection being broken up...

It's been a great 2 weeks with our annual group of American interns spending their days cataloguing some our incredible archives, dippin...

Thanks very much to Friendly Dragon in Halifax who have just donated £40 to museum - very generous as they are also looking for new pr...

I'm pleased to let you know that @witchmuseum has been featured on the recently published list of 101 Top Twitter Feeds for Learning ...

Check out the new 'Media', button on the museum's website.....This is just the start - we hope to include archive footage, ...