Unlock the secrets of Wakefield Museum on a code and cipher trail! Send secret messages of your own.
It's the return of our frighteningly popular Witches and Wizards week!
Craft a stunning willow lantern and be inspired by the colours of autumn.
In the early 1900s, a new wonder material began to appear in our homes. Discover the history, impact and future of plastics.
Celebrate local artistic talent. Enjoy a variety of fantastic work by members of Pontefract Art Club.
Join us for a tour of the Pontefract Castle dungeon! Soak in the atmosphere of this eerie underground space.
Learn about history where it happened on an Explorer Tour! Walk in the footsteps of royalty and Civil War soldiers.
Join our friendly Castleford Museum team, rain or shine, for free fun craft activities every Saturday.
Join our friendly Pontefract Museum team, rain or shine, for free fun craft activities every Saturday.
Join our friendly Wakefield Museum team, rain or shine, for free fun craft activities every Saturday.
Get hands-on with history! Handle real historical objects from our collection.
Drop into our reference room to discover a treasure trove of photos, newspaper clippings and more.
Our monthly Meet the Curator sessions are your chance to chat with our team. Bring your objects, stories or questions!
Explore Castleford's colourful and crafty past and try out a different activity each month.
Join Ilbert the Dragon for a fun afternoon of storytelling and hands-on play.
A special weekly session for our littlest visitors! Meet Alphabet Cat and take part in activities, rhymes and more.
Join Charlie Bear every Tuesday during term time for a lively session of storytelling, crafts and rhymes!
Get hands-on with history at Castleford Museum! Handle real historical objects.
Discover Pontefract Museum through play, sign-supported English and making connections.
Join 'Richard Holmes' on a lantern-lit tour of Pontefract Castle, illuminating its dark history.
Don your detective cap this half term! Solve peculiar puzzles and unlock our museum mysteries.
Join us for the SEND session of our frighteningly popular Witches and Wizards week activities!
Let's get arty! Make a personalised sketch book and try out urban sketching on a sketch tour.
Join Detective Ted for a cosy storytelling session all about a mystery that needs to be solved!
Use Powertex, fabric and mixed media techniques to create seasonal 3D masterpieces.
Discover fantastic facts about amazing creatures! Sort fact from fiction and get hands-on with some animals.
Join the Lo-Fi Alchemists for free Halloween-inspired creative activities.
Meet local author Gail C. Powell at this special spooky author event! Be inspired to create your own mysterious tales...
Meet our special sweet Santa in his Liquorice grotto and receive a Christmas gift!
Relaxed family festive fun and a visit from Father Christmas!*
Celebrate the joy of shops and the market at Castleford this Christmas and enjoy some festive crafts!
We’ve joined forces with the Featherstone Rovers Foundation for the first ever museum display celebrating Learning Disability Rugby League.
Explore the diary pages of soldier George Kellett. Learn about George's life through first-hand accounts.
Get messy, creative and curious with Lo-fi Alchemists! Investigate the colourful world of natural dyes.
Become a treasure hunter! Follow clues on a map to discover 'treasure', and create your own maps.
Distinguish historical fact from fiction in our fun myth-busting game! Create your own game to take away.
Explore the Victorian world of patchwork! Make your own patchwork-style Christmas stocking.
Visit South Elmsall Library Museum Hub and discover toys from the past!
Get creative with Powertex and make a gorgeous handmade wreath.
Design and make your own silver ring and brass necklace! Learn how to use basic jewellery making tools.
Discover the Japanese art of Kinusaiga! Transform fabric scraps into a stunning work of art.
Transform plain candles into beautifully decorated Christmas gifts.
Get creative this festive season and make your own no-sew Christmas stocking to take away!
Discover the history of Glasshoughton's Grade II listed urinal with a talk from Castleford Civic Society.
Learn about the three key sieges of Pontefract Castle with our fantastic volunteers!
We’re going back to school in Ossett! Discover how local school life has changed over the last 200 years.
Get creative and discover a new side to Pontefract Castle in this welcoming poetry workshop and walk.
Bring your budding young writers and enjoy a walk and write around Pontefract Castle together!
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