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Exhibition
Durham City
This permanent exhibition uses objects from Museum of Archaeology, alongside objects from across Durham University and other regional museums to explore the last 10,000 years of Durham.
Family Fun
Peterlee
Free weekly timed 5k run, jog or walk at Cotsford Field, Horden. All welcome including children and dogs – doesn’t matter how fast or slow you may be. Every Saturday 9:00 Sat
Family Fun
Market Place, BISHOP AUCKLAND
These ten-minute talks will look at a specific painting, theme, technique or story based on our collection. Daily 11:30 & 14:30. Included in entry to Mining Art Gallery/drop-in.
Outdoor Adventure Activities
Redford
Gruffalo Orienteering - fun family map reading challenge. Try our fun, navigational challenge at Hamsterley Forest using a simple map to find twelve Gruffalo markers hidden in the deep, dark wood.
Exhibition
High Street, Spennymoor
An amazing display of Norman Cornish work infused onto glass with back lighting. Also available within the Town Hall’s Bob Abley Art Gallery is the ‘Durham Miners Gala Exhibition’ by Cornish, complimented by a range of other top regional artists…
Exhibition
Spennymoor
Celebrating the centenary of Norman Cornish, this exhibition tells the fascinating story of the mural depicting the Durham Miners’ Gala, painted by the artist in 1963.
Music Event
Beamish, STANLEY
Bands at Beamish!
Exhibition
Market Place, Bishop Auckland
As part of a countywide celebration, the centenary of Cornish’s birth will be marked by a special exhibition. Co-curated by members of the local community. Residents from Spennymoor to explore Norman’s work & select their favourite paintings.
Exhibition
Barnard Castle
Everyone of all ages, from children to the young at heart, can see our Museum in a new way – recreate our history and collections in LEGO®! Start with building some of the objects from our collection that tell the story of John and Joséphine.
Exhibition
Durham City
Explore life in ancient Britain, from warfare to rituals, and the way Bronze Age people buried weapons and treasure in hidden hoards. Curated by the Museum and Artefact studies MA students, this exhibition gives a face to prehistoric people.
Nature
Hamsterley Forest
Every Sunday in 2019 from 16 June - 12:00pm to 1:00pm and 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Family Fun
Durham
Have fun discovering Durham with two self-guided, heritage walks with an optional treasure hunt. Buy or instantly download & get curious!
Festival
Durham City
Join us for a special 10th year anniversary edition. Lumiere is the UK’s largest light festival and has been transforming cities across the UK since 2009. Each Lumiere festival invites local and international artists to create works that…
Participatory Event
Durham
Displayed in Palace Green Library are some of Norman Cornish's sketchbooks, a famous artist from County Durham. Celebrate the North East's heritage this weekend and the opening of this exhibition by making a different type of drawing, a collage.
Family Fun
Dale Road , Shildon
Shildon LEGO Show is back in 2019! Two days of LEGO, LEGO and more LEGO.
Join us for a weekend of LEGO at North East England’s largest LEGO show, with free entry and free parking. 10:00 - 16:00
Pantomimes
Durham City
Following on from the recent successes of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robinson Crusoe, as well as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the fairest panto opening this year, the Gala Theatre are delighted to announce that our next pantomime will be the…
Food & Drink
Chester Le Street
Come live like Lords and Ladies of a bygone age and experience a great night out at Lumley Castle’s award winning Elizabethan Banquet.
Family Fun
Woodland Road, Durham
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy. This quirky family still has to deal with many of the same challenges faced by any other family, and the spookiest nightmare faced by every…
Participatory Event
South Road, Durham
Come and see the Ancient Egyptian jewellery on display and make your own Egyptian collar necklace. Drop in 1-3pm, no need to book. Activities are included in normal admission prices and are generally suitable for children 5-11 years. Children must…
Participatory Event
Durham
During our Norman Cornish exhibition we will have loads of fun events, including poetry readings! Write your own poem today, using Cornish's sketchbook as your muse, who or what will you write about? 13:00 - 15:00
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