OXFORD residents are encouraged to come to a special fundraising event which will raise money for the city's museum.

A Night of Tudor Accidents will take place tonight from 7pm in the Old Museum and will take participants on a journey throughout Tudor history in Oxfordshire.

There will be reference to a sledgehammer competition that went wrong in Ardington to a bowls on ice incident on the Cherwell and an unusual bear attack in North Oxford.

Professor of History at Oxford University, Steven Gunn, will be on hand to describe the events.

Attendees will be able to get involved in object handling and to take part in the historical but edgy How Did They Die? game.

They will also have access to a barge bar – but that will only take cash.

Tickets are £10 each and include booking fees and a drink.

All the profits from the event will go towards fundraising for the Museum of Oxford's multi-million pound redevelopment.

The project in the Old Museum is hoped to be completed in 2018 with the opening of the new Museum of Oxford being completed by 2020.

A funding application to the Heritage Lottery Fund should be completed later this year.

The city council's executive board member for culture and communities, Councillor Dee Sinclair, said: “Oxford has a fascinating history and A Night of Local Tudor Accidents will provide us with an insight into this.”