Pop Up Ashington Group Hut

Price 

Included with Annual Pass. 

Time 

12noon-3pm. 

Drop in, no need to book. 

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.