We meet at the Rutland County Museum, Catmos Street, Oakham, LE15 6HW on the 4th Thursday of the months: January to November but excluding July.
Meetings commence at 11:00 a.m. and coffee is available from 10:15 a.m.
To find the nearest car park please see the council web site below.
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Important information about future meetings - click on each venue to find directions
Unfortunately for us, in the autumn of this year the Museum is likely to be closed for refurbishment which will allow for exciting displays of replicas of the Rutland ichthyosaur and Roman mosaic at Ketton. For some time, and probably the whole of 2027, we shall need to hold our lectures elsewhere - before, we hope, returning to the Museum one day.To explain further. we are too large a society to meet in the alternative Oakham locations available on Thursdays.
Therefore we have arranged to meet at Greetham Valley Golf Club in September and November, (after our usual August lecture and lunch there), and apologise for the additional travelling that this will generate.
In October, in keeping to a venue in the town, we are planning to meet in All Saints Church Oakham since it is available on the Thursday morning during Half Term.
The challenge of where to meet will almost certainly stay with us during 2027, and since lecturers are booked well over a year in advance, your Committee has had to consider the implications already. What is more important? The traditional timing of our lectures or a location in Oakham? We believe that as “The Arts Society, Oakham” we should meet in or close to Oakham, but we do not believe that will be practical on Thursdays. Therefore, to help secure a good venue, and although it will disappoint some, from January 2027 we plan to move our lectures from the morning of the fourth Thursday to the morning of fourth Tuesday.
Wherever and whenever we meet, our number one priority is, and always will be, the presentation of lectures of the highest quality.