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The women's camp at Bergen-Belsen, at liberation

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Jan

Naomi & Arthur: Letters from Liberation A new permanent exhibition opens on 27th January 2024 at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, tells a story of how a small act of kindness can have a life-changing impact. It will focus on two people from different worlds – Arthur Tyler, a soldier with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, and Naomi Kaplan, a Polish Jew who survived both Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. When the…

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Aug

Veterans’ Coffee & Chat We’re starting a new, regular veterans’ coffee morning at the museum. Starting on Thursday 28 September the event will become a bi-monthly fixture, with future dates falling on the final Thursday of every other month. Open to all veterans, they’ll offer an opportunity to meet up and catch up with fellow veterans as well as a chance to browse the museum galleries free of charge. With…

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Jun

Join us for our Armed Forces Day celebration on 1st July 2023! Serving Armed Forces, Veterans and Cadets can visit FREE One week on from National Armed Forces Day, we’re inviting members of the Armed Forces community to come and enjoy the museum, a range of events, and our Women and War exhibition, FREE! Alongside our permanent exhibitions, covering the history of the county regiments and many other aspects of…

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Mar

Their Finest Hour Second World War Digital Collections Day at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum Join us at SOFO Museum to share your Second World War stories, photos and items on the 1st April 2023 – we’ll record your stories and photograph your objects to add to the Their Finest Hour online archive. The museum will open to visitors free of charge throughout the day and will be hosting a range of…

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Aug

SOFO Summer Shelter Competition! To celebrate our recently opened Anderson Shelter display (built with the support of our wonderful Crowdfunder backers!) we’re running a special competition this Summer – show us your own home-made air-raid shelters and we’ll award prizes to the best! Plus, we’ll feature submissions in an online gallery – so they’ll all be museum pieces! Here are a couple of examples of shelters crafted by the museum team’s…

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Feb

SOFO Museum first opened during the summer of 2014, tucked away in the beautiful gardens in the grounds of The Oxfordshire Museum and Woodstock Library, and just on the doorstep of Blenheim Palace. More than a local military museum, SOFO is a museum that everyone can enjoy, from kids to parents, and to grandparents. We tell stories of how conflict has affected the county and its people, from soldiers serving…

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A remarkable story of kindness during wartime forms new display at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024

Join us at one of the regular Veterans’ coffee mornings at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

Join us for our Armed Forces Day celebration on 1st July 2023

Share your story at our Their Finest Hour Second World War Collections Day

SOFO Summer Shelter Competition