Friday - Sunday, 6-8 June, 2025
Open from 10am, with last entry at 10pm. Entertainment from 8:45pm each night.
To mark the end of the West Norwood Cemetery six year National Lottery Heritage Funded project, the Moon is being brought down to Earth with an extra special presentation of the Museum of the Moon for the weekend as the centrepiece of the ongoing celebratory Illuminate creative arts festival.
Amazing by day against the blue sky and green leafed trees, its warm glow and incredible detail at night is especially beautiful. There is no need to book, just turn-up.
From the beginning of human history, the moon has acted as a ‘cultural mirror’ to our beliefs, understanding and ways of seeing. Over the centuries, this celestial body has been interpreted as a god and a planet, as well as a timekeeper and calendar.
Different cultures have their own historical, cultural and religious relationships to the moon. With its ever-changing phases, is it a powerful symbol, representing different aspects of life, death, and rebirth and in many mythologies, the moon’s influence extends into the realm of the underworld, a concept that embodies the mysteries surrounding death and the afterlife.
Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally for 25 years, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe. Find out more through his main website here.
The Museum of the Moon was inspired by living in Bristol and noticing the huge tidal variation as he cycled over the Avon Cut each day. His moon research also led to his artwork Tide. In 2019 Luke was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
*The massive 23 metre wide, high resolution image used to create the moon artwork, was created by the Astrogeology Science Centre in the USA. The imagery was taken by a NASA satellite carrying the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera launched in 2010.
