What’s On Events Calendar

Jointly organised by the Palace Museum and the Oriental Museum

• Exhibition
• Exhibitions
• Public
• Family friendly
• Global
• Everyone

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Join the Saturday Archaeological Illustration Club to develop your skills in archaeological illustration. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned illustrator, these sessions offer a chance to refine your technique, interact with real artefacts, and engage with the archaeology community in a relaxed, informal environment.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• Local and family historians
• Students in HE

Celebrate Japanese Children's Day, make cool carp banners and dress up in kimonos. 

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Join us for a relaxed afternoon stitching workshop.

• Creative
• Public
• Workshop
• Alumni
• Everyone
• Friends of the Oriental Museum
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Spot a giant drum and make one of your very own!

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Hello and welcome to Life Drawing at Palace Green Library! This is an in-person life drawing class that is open to everybody and hosted at Palace Green Library in Durham City.

• Creative
• Alumni
• Everyone
• Friends of Palace Green Library
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• Students in HE
• Young People

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Public debut of the Huang Kam Chak Yee Collection

• Exhibitions
• Everyone

See our huge plaster cast of an Ancient Egyptian temple wall and make your own crocodile-headed god puppet.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Check out an amazing Korean sculpture and then make a seascape collage to take home.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Celebrate the most important day in the Buddhist calendar and join us for lots of activities.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Workshop
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• School students

Come along to enjoy the Botanic Garden annual Fun Day this Bank Holiday Monday 25 May. There will be a host of FREE, family-friendly activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy, from face-painting to flower arranging, to crafts and Samurai sword demonstrations and discover our Crazy Creatures, all accompanied by live music from Pittington Brass Band. Plus - Our Friends of the Garden will be holding their annual plant sale!

• Outreach & community
• Student experience
• Family friendly

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Be a detective and hunt down some objects that might not be exactly what they seem and make one of your own.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Join us for a family-friendly Korean paper flower making workshop.

• Creative
• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Workshop
• Children and families
• Everyone

The Museum of Archaeology invites you to create your own coat of arms to display in the new gallery space.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• School students
• Teachers / Home Educators
• Young People

The Oriental Museum is full of sculptures. Find you favourite then make a colourful skewer sculpture to take home.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone