Ways to Play – May half-term events at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

19 May 2023

Ways to Play – May half-term events at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) and Tyne and Wear Metro are continuing their award-winning partnership to offer families low-cost fun days out.

At a time when everyone is conscious of rising costs, Tyneside’s museums are offering a range of high quality, low-cost events at well-loved family destinations across South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Newcastle and Gateshead. All of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums’ venues are near a Metro Station, so families can take advantage of free travel for children under 11, with a fare paying adult.

The Ways to Play campaign is inspired by the range of ways a child can play, which encourages children to be active, creative and imaginative. Highlights of May’s Ways to Play programme include; maritime related crafts and trails at Discovery Museum and heritage train rides at Stephenson Steam Railway, alongside a variety of summer-inspired craft activities across venues like Shipley Art Gallery, Arbeia Roman Fort and South Shields Museum.

TWAM first partnered with Tyne and Wear Metro on the Ways to Play campaign in Summer 2021. The campaign has since received recognition at the North East Culture awards in 2022 by winning Best Arts and Business Partnership, as well as the best Not for Profit Marketing Award at the North East Marketing Awards in December 2022. It was also shortlisted at the Museum + Heritage Awards in May 2023 for Partnership of the Year.

Click to view the Ways to Play webpage.

The full list of events include:

Discovery Museum

Discovery Days: Shipshape

Shipbuilder Trail

Great North Museum Hancock

Moss Troppers, Myth Makers

Shipley Art Gallery

Family Arts Festival: Floral Wreath and Flower Collage

Stephenson Steam Railway

Make & Take: Design a Plant Pot

Heritage Train Rides