Alec Cobbe will give a tour of the Cabinet of Curiosities Museum (not the instruments). The Cobbe family museum now at Hatchlands but originally from Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, is a rare 18th century Cabinet of Curiosities with its original display furniture, a unique survival in the British Isles. Containing more than sixteen hundred objects, which include naturalia, exotica, fossils, rocks and minerals, shells, insects, butterflies and a rare group of Indian artefacts collected by members of the family.

Coffee and biscuits on arrival, in the Dining Room, are included in the ticket price.

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