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Our popular Early Years Storytime Group gives families and carers with pre-school children the opportunity to meet regularly throughout the year.
Join us every Friday (during term time) to read a story together, and take part in a hands-on activity.
There are extra books and toys available for you to stay and play on the Upper Ground Floor of the Cutter building and the Winding House Café after the session.
at Woodhorn Museum
Our popular Early Years Storytime Group gives families and carers with pre-school children the opportunity to meet regularly throughout the year.
Join us every Friday (during term time) to read a story together, and take part in a hands-on activity.
There are extra books and toys available for you to stay and play on the Upper Ground Floor of the Cutter building and the Winding House Café after the session.
at Woodhorn Museum
Our popular Early Years Storytime Group gives families and carers with pre-school children the opportunity to meet regularly throughout the year.
Join us every Friday (during term time) to read a story together, and take part in a hands-on activity.
There are extra books and toys available for you to stay and play on the Upper Ground Floor of the Cutter building and the Winding House Café after the session.
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The Easter Bunny will be visiting Woodhorn Museum from Good Friday through to Easter Monday.
If you find the Bunny during your visit, you'll be rewarded with a small sweet treat.
You can also join in the daily craft activity in the Pop Up Ashington Group Hut which runs from 12noon - 3pm everyday during the Northumberland Easter holidays.
at Woodhorn Museum
Our popular Early Years Storytime Group gives families and carers with pre-school children the opportunity to meet regularly throughout the year.
Join us every Friday (during term time) to read a story together, and take part in a hands-on activity.
There are extra books and toys available for you to stay and play on the Upper Ground Floor of the Cutter building and the Winding House Café after the session.
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This is your chance to get creative during the Easter holidays with a brand new, family friendly art activity.
At the centre of every miner's home was a kitchen, and at the heart would have been the range. It would provide warmth and comfort on the coldest days, as well as generating heat to cook meals, hot water for a pot of tea or to fill a tin bath to bathe in.
Inspired by the painters of the Ashington Group who captured these scenes of domestic life in their paintings, you can create your own Victorian cooking range using the drawing and collage materials provided.
You can find a real range on display in Coal Town downstairs in the museum, and see if you can spot a range in any of the paintings by The Pitmen Painters in the Ashington Group Gallery upstairs.
A friendly member of staff will be on hand to help but we ask that children are not left unattended, grown ups are invited to get creative too!
This activity is devised by artist Paul Merrick.
The Pop Up Ashington Group Hut, designed by artist Imogen Cloët, is inspired by the hut in which the Ashington Group met to make and talk about their artworks.
Supported by Arts Council England and Northumberland County Council.
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Every fourth Sunday of the month between 10-11am is Quiet Hour, when there are fewer visitors in the museum and we turn down the sound in our exhibitions and displays.
We also have ear defenders available for you to borrow, as some of the experiences around the museum can be quite noisy.
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On the first Wednesday of every month, there is live music in the Winding House Café.
Dave and Ray from 'Three's a Crowd' will be performing a mix of easy listening songs from the 60s and 70s.
Come and show your support.
at Woodhorn Museum
Every fourth Sunday of the month between 10-11am is Quiet Hour, when there are fewer visitors in the museum and we turn down the sound in our exhibitions and displays.
We also have ear defenders available for you to borrow, as some of the experiences around the museum can be quite noisy.
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Housed in Woodhorn's stunning Workshop Galleries, the annual Northumberland Open is the largest exhibition of its type in Northumberland.
The exhibition attracts submissions from artists from across Northumberland and beyond. Works are selected for exhibition by a professional panel of artists and curators who also select an Overall Winner and Highly Commended artworks to be awarded prizes.
During the exhibition run, thousands of visitors vote for the 'People's Choice Award' which is announced at the end of the exhibition.
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On the first Wednesday of every month, there is live music in the Winding House Café.
Dave and Ray from 'Three's a Crowd' will be performing a mix of easy listening songs from the 60s and 70s.
Come and show your support.
at Woodhorn Museum
Every fourth Sunday of the month between 10-11am is Quiet Hour, when there are fewer visitors in the museum and we turn down the sound in our exhibitions and displays.
We also have ear defenders available for you to borrow, as some of the experiences around the museum can be quite noisy.
at Woodhorn Museum
On the first Wednesday of every month, there is live music in the Winding House Café.
Dave and Ray from 'Three's a Crowd' will be performing a mix of easy listening songs from the 60s and 70s.
Come and show your support.
at Woodhorn Museum
Every fourth Sunday of the month between 10-11am is Quiet Hour, when there are fewer visitors in the museum and we turn down the sound in our exhibitions and displays.
We also have ear defenders available for you to borrow, as some of the experiences around the museum can be quite noisy.
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Explore the colliery buildings, learn more about how the site operated and find out more about the daily dangers miners faced.
We're always interested in hearing your stories too, so come along and share your own knowledge about our coalmining past.
Although not all of the heritage buildings included in this tour are fully accessible, our staff will adapt the tour so that everyone taking part can discover more about our industrial heritage. Please let the staff leading the tour know how they can help.
This tour takes place in heritage colliery buildings and although it is suitable for children and adults, we do ask that visitors take care and that children are supervised at all times.
Access to the winding gear demonstration part of this tour involves climbing steep stairs. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes, and those unable to climb the stairs are welcome to observe the winding gear from the lower level of the winding house.
If you would like to have a chat about whether this tour is suitable for you or your family/group members, please ask a member of staff, or contact us by telephoning 01670 624455.
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Come and play with our activity trollies.
You'll find two trollies based upstairs in the Cutter building.
Each one has drawers containing activities for Little Explorers, Story Tellers, and Curious Curators. Inside these you can find games to play, story prompts and puppets, or curious objects to investigate.
We have spaces to explore our trollies easily, just take the drawer to a table. What will you find and what stories will you tell?
The trollies are suitable from ages three and up, and are available to play with throughout our opening hours.
We ask that families sanitise their hands before and after using the trollies, objects or colouring materials.
You can also find a bookcase of stories available to read while having lunch in the Winding House Café. Look out for the Mini Museum Lunchtime Library at the Cutter building entrance to the Café.
We are working towards making our Café even better for children, and have been awarded Kids in Museums Family Café Standard.
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The Pit Yard Play Area features a range of accessible play equipment to encourage children of all abilities to interact and learn through movement, sound, vision and memory. The equipment includes:
The Pit Yard Play Area is accessible by a wheelchair and pushchair friendly accessible path, with a small slide linking the path with the lower level site.
Seating is also available to allow parents and guardians to relax while being close by.