What’s On Events Calendar

This talk by a group of Master of Arts Museum and Artefact Studies students will share some anecdotes and information about the fun and challenges of creating an exhibition to do with rituals.

• Exhibition
• Lecture
• Public
• Everyone

Find out why the Ancient Egyptians were fascinated by frogs and make a froggy puppet to take home.

• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Everyone

Join Durham University Poetry Society for this workshop, exploring nature writing and magical realism.

• Creative
• Workshop
• Everyone
• Students in HE

Join artist Alice Highet on this sensory walk of Durham City.

• Creative
• Workshop
• Everyone
• Students in HE

Find out about the Festival of Sacrifice and try making some Islamic-style geometric art.

• Creative
• Festival
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups

Join artist Gail Bell and try painting on glass and Perspex using a variety of tools and techniques.

• Outreach & community
• Public
• Workshop
• 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
• Public

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

Oriental Museum is open until 7pm the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.

• Exhibitions
• Lates
• Public
• Everyone

Find out about the Sage King of Korea and make your own super sparkly crown.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• 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
• Public

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

Palace Green Library is open until 7pm the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.

• Exhibitions
• Lates
• Public
• Everyone

Create a unique artwork inspired by our new exhibition remembering the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Partnerships & Collaboration
• Everyone

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

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

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 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

Oriental Museum is open until 7pm the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.

• Exhibitions
• Lates
• Public
• Everyone

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