PUBLIC PROGRAMMES / AUGUST–OCTOBER 2026Calendar · Series · Visit
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Founded after the Great Indoor Drizzle of 1891The Museum of Misfiled Weather
14:00NEXT FOLDING
TODAY 14:00 — HOW TO FOLD A LOCALIZED SQUALL / BRING NO WIND
Museum atrium prepared for a public weather lecture
TALKS, ORATIONS & PRACTICAL CONDITIONS

Lectures under a supervised atmosphere

Curators, conservators, historians, and atmospheric witnesses explain the objects without fully explaining the weather.

LECTURES18
DEMONSTRATIONS12
FAMILY DAYS4
DAMP SEATS31
DRY SEATS82
QUESTIONS FILED441
APPLAUSEOptional

Coming events

Times are exact unless the demonstration contains active weather, in which case they become observational.

How to Fold a Localized Squall
Senior Conservator M. Vale demonstrates the approved four-fold method using a non-active study squall. Bring no wind.
Annual Dew Oration
The Honourable P. Moss speaks from a slightly wet lectern on the civic memory of morning condensation.
Children’s Administrative Snow
Forms, flakes, paper thermometers, and supervised accumulation for ages 6–12.
Who Owned the Pantry Fog?
A provenance roundtable with property historians, one heir, and the original locked drawer.
Listening to Quiet Thunder
A curator-led cylinder session. The silence will be introduced twice.

2026 lecture series

Indoor weather emblem
SERIES I

Domestic Atmospheres

Rain in parlors, hallway fronts, inherited fog, and the legal status of warm corners.

Archive weather emblem
SERIES II

Cabinet Methods

Folding, bottling, labeling, and safely disagreeing with an active accession.

Historical weather emblem
SERIES III

Weather & Memory

How communities recall forecasts that did not occur in the expected place.

Families & younger meteorologists

Family days combine close looking, dry craft materials, and phenomena approved for small hands. Children must remain with an adult; adults must remain with their umbrellas.

ActivityAgesCondition
Make a cloud accession label5+No cloud required
Administrative snow table6–12Paper accumulation
Draw the missing rainbow colorAllViolet pencils limited
Junior fog provenance9+Visibility may vary

Venue conditions

Most events take place in the West Lecture Gallery, which is step-free and equipped with hearing assistance. The room is dry by museum standards. Low-sensory seating is available beside the former forecast door.

Past talk archive

The Umbrella as Witness — Dr. O. Reed, 2025 Damp Society Address. Measuring a Breeze After the Bottle — Conservator L. Fen, spring 2026.

Six Legal Definitions of Indoors — Cabinet Counsel P. Grey. Color Custody in Unclaimed Rainbows — S. Vellum, Department VI.