What’s On Events Calendar
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Twilight Opening at Oriental Museum
06 July 2023 - 06 July 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Oriental Museum is open until 7pm the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.
- Exhibitions
- Lates
- Public
- Everyone
The Super Sage King
08 July 2023 - 08 July 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Find out about the Sage King of Korea and make your own super sparkly crown.
- Creative
- Outreach & community
- Everyone
Little Dragons
12 July 2023 - 12 July 2023
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Oriental Museum
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
- Public
Little Dragons
12 July 2023 - 12 July 2023
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Oriental Museum
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
- Public
Twilight Opening at Palace Green Library
13 July 2023 - 13 July 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Palace Green Library is open until 7pm the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.
- Exhibitions
- Lates
- Public
- Everyone
Hands of Peace art workshop
15 July 2023 - 15 July 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Create a unique artwork inspired by our new exhibition remembering the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
- Creative
- Outreach & community
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Everyone
Reimagine Durham City with Artist Nocciola The Drawer
16 July 2023 - 16 July 2023
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Historic Libraries
As a part of the Summer in the City Arts Festival, rebuild Durham city centre in this creative workshop, use your hands to build a new city centre with clay, playdough and your wildest imagination.
- Creative
- Workshop
- Family friendly
- Children and families
- Everyone
Little Dragons
19 July 2023 - 19 July 2023
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Oriental Museum
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
- Public
Little Dragons
19 July 2023 - 19 July 2023
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Oriental Museum
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
- Public
The long aftermath: how Hiroshima and Nagasaki shaped and were shaped by postwar history
19 July 2023 - 19 July 2023
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Oriental Museum
The two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki unquestionably altered the course of the twentieth century. Yet their impact was not predetermined in August of 1945 but unfolded in historically-contingent ways over several decades.
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Public
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Everyone
Twilight Opening at Oriental Museum
20 July 2023 - 20 July 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Oriental Museum is open until 7pm the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.
- Exhibitions
- Lates
- Public
- Everyone
Spatial Objects at Durham Castle, Tour Led by Artist Dan Holdsworth
20 July 2023 - 20 July 2023
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Durham Castle
As a part of the Summer in the City Arts Festival and in celebration of his new temporary exhibition 'Spatial Objects', join artist Dan Holdsworth on a tour of this exhibition at Durham Castle.
- Tour
- Everyone
- Students in HE
- Young People
Ancient Egyptian Super Sobek
22 July 2023 - 22 July 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
See our newest Ancient Egyptian object on display - a huge plaster cast of a temple wall and make an Ancient Egyptian collage featuring the crocodile-headed god, Sobek.
- Creative
- Outreach & community
- Everyone
Monster Modelling with Artist Paul Raymond
25 July 2023 - 25 July 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Part of Summer in the City Art Festival 2023, learn how to sculpt monsters and grotesque creatures in this workshop with artist Paul Raymond.
- Creative
- Outreach & community
- Workshop
- Family friendly
- Children and families
- Everyone
Little Dragons
26 July 2023 - 26 July 2023
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Oriental Museum
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
- Public
Framing Shakespeare
26 July 2023 - 11 September 2023
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Historic Libraries
As a Part of the Summer in the City Art Festival and the Durham Fringe Festival, come along to Cosin’s Library to view 18th century prints inspired by the works of Shakespeare.
- Exhibition
- Everyone
Little Dragons
26 July 2023 - 26 July 2023
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Oriental Museum
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
- Public
Tea Time
26 July 2023 - 26 July 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Find out about tea in China and decorate a paper tea bowl.
- Outreach & community
- Everyone
Twilight Opening at Palace Green Library
27 July 2023 - 27 July 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Palace Green Library is open until 7pm the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.
- Exhibitions
- Lates
- Public
- Everyone
Twilight Talk: Durham Archaeology Explorers
27 July 2023 - 27 July 2023
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Museum of Archaeology, Historic Libraries, Durham World Heritage Site Visitor Centre
Charlotte Spink, Learning Coordinator with the Learning and Engagement Team will be joined by members of Durham Archaeology Explorers (archaeology club for children aged 7 - 11 years) to talk about the group’s recent activities and why community archaeology groups are so important for inspiring the archaeologists and historians of the future.
- Exhibition
- Lecture
- Outreach & community
- Public
- Family friendly
- Everyone
What’s on across our venues
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Historic Libraries at Palace Green, Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. Whatever your interest, there's something for everyone to enjoy.