AN MP will be given a tour of a museum and learn about the support it receives from a committee set up to help sustain its future.

Witney MP Robert Courts will tomorrow visit The Oxfordshire Museum, in Fletcher’s House, Woodstock, after receiving an invitation from its friends committee for lunch and a guided tour.

Dr Elizabeth Poskitt, chairwoman of the Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum, will brief Mr Courts on the wide range of projects at the museum which are supported financially by the group.

The MP will be shown a variety of the museum’s work and, after midday, will meet with a group of schoolchildren enjoying a Victorian workshop in the Coach House, a building converted into an education centre in a major project made possible by a significant donation to the friends.

The varied work of the volunteers, many of whom are also friends, will also be featured, in particular the work of the garden team run by John Banbury.

Mr Courts will also be shown the various important additions to the permanent collections, fundraising for which has been supported by the friends.

This includes the recently acquired Didcot Iron Age mirror and the new Anglo-Saxon gallery.

He will view the Oxford Printmakers’ Exhibition in the Garden Gallery and learn how the friends contribute to enriching the museum’s exhibition programme by supporting the cost of touring exhibitions.