OCTOBER 2018 TO MARCH 2019
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Fabulous family events
across Durham University this Winter CLUBS Little Bookworms
Little Dragons
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Little Bookworms is a group for children under 5, their parents and carers. Come along every Monday morning 10.30am11.30am for fantastic stories, crafts, messy play, singing, games and much more.
Little Dragons is the Oriental Museum’s group for under 5s, their parents and carers. Come along every Wednesday between 10am-11am for fun crafts, messy play, object handling, stories and role playing.
£1 per child (parents/carers free). No booking necessary, just drop in. For further information please contact +44 (0)191 334 2932.
£1 per child (parents/carers free). No booking necessary, just drop in. For further information please contact +44 (0)191 334 5691.
Durham Archaeology Explorers Oriental Museum Children aged 7 - 11 years are invited to join Durham University Museums’ Archaeology Club. The group meets on the first Saturday of the month from 2pm-4pm at the Oriental Museum. Through exciting hands-on experiments and activities, the club investigates all aspects of archaeology and explores Durham’s own archaeological secrets. Charges apply. Spaces are limited, so booking is required. For further information please call +44 (0)191 334 5694.
PLEASE NOTE • Events are drop-in and there is no need to pre-book activities, unless otherwise stated
• Participation in all activities is included in the usual admission price, unless otherwise stated
• Children under 16 MUST be accompanied by an adult
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• Activities are generally suitable for children aged 5 – 11 years, unless otherwise stated
Adults without children are generally discouraged from taking part in family events, but may be allowed to do so at the discretion of the event leader, should places be available
OCTOBER Mon 1 to Wed 31 Oct 10am-5pm
SIGNS OF AUTUMN Pick up a leaflet from the Visitor Centre and see what you can discover in the garden. This is a self-led activity, and subject to availability of spotter sheets.
Sat 6 Oct
LUCKY DUCKY
1pm-3pm
In Korea, ducks symbolise peace and love. Take a look at our Korean wedding ducks and make your own duck puppet.
Sat 6 & Sun 7 Oct
BEAUTIFUL BOOKMARKS
1pm-3pm
Here at Palace Green Library, we have over 70,000 printed books! Create your very own bookmark so you will never lose your page.
Sat 13 Oct
WONDERFUL WEAVING
1pm-3pm
Check out our beautiful woven basket from Borneo and try nature weaving.
Sat 13 & Sun 14 Oct
Botanic Garden
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Botanic Garden
10am-3pm
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS WEEKEND Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will demonstrate their skills in the garden. Les takes much of his inspiration from the History of Durham, in particular St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Viv works with traditional paper crafts such as embossing, quilling, parchment work and many more techniques. Sat 13 & Sun 14 Oct 1pm-3pm
FUN FLAGS Design your own battalion flag to remember your visit to the DLI Gallery. You can use your favourite colours, shapes and patterns.
Palace Green Library
Sat 20 Oct
ZINGY ZEN
1pm-3pm
Explore Japanese culture by making a mini zen garden and visiting the Teikyo Festival.
Sat 20 & Sun 21 Oct
SUPER STAINED GLASS
1pm-3pm
In Durham, we have some of the most beautiful stained glass windows. Use all the colours you can find to make one inspired by Durham World Heritage site.
Tues 23 to Thur 25 Oct
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Palace Palace Green Green
10am-4pm daily
CELEBRATE SCIENCE Durham University invites you to Celebrate Science 2018. Enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of FREE events and activities. Explore outer space, carry out amazing experiments and discover how science shapes your world. So what are you waiting for? Start celebrating science. www.durham.ac.uk/ celebrate.science
Wed 24 Oct
HAUNTING HALLOWEEN
1pm-3pm
Join us for the ever-popular spooky mask making session and make a mask from the craft materials provided and by collecting items from the garden.
Wed 24 Oct
CELEBRATE SCIENCE
1pm-3pm
Ever wondered how ancient people told the time? Make a sundial and find out.
Botanic Garden
Oriental Museum
Fri 26 Oct
AUTISM FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES: JAWS!
10.30am-12.30pm
Children with autism, learning or sensory impairments, and their families, can take part in our quiet-time crafts. The Ancient Egyptians were terrified of hippos. See the huge hippo jaw on display and make a hippo puppet.
Fri 26 Oct
JAWS!
1pm-3pm
The Ancient Egyptians were terrified of hippos. See the huge hippo jaw on display and make a hippo puppet.
Oriental Museum
Oriental Museum
Oriental Museum
Sat 27 Oct
GLASS ART
1pm-3pm
See a 1,000 year old glass bottle from Syria and paint your own glass jar to take home.
Sat 27 & Sun 28 Oct
MILITARY MUSIC
1pm-3pm
Be inspired by the drums used by the Durham Light Infantry and make your own mini drum to play. Complete with drum sticks!
Palace Green Library
NOVEMBER Botanic Garden
Thur 1 to Fri 30 Nov 10am-4pm
WINTER WONDERLAND Pick up a leaflet from the Visitor Centre and see what you can discover in the garden. This is a self-led activity, and subject to availability of spotter sheets.
Sat 3 Nov
FAMILY ART ATTACK
1pm-3pm
Help us prepare for Diwali by making flowers and lanterns to decorate the Museum.
Sat 3 & Sun 4 Nov
SWASHBUCKLING SWORDS
1pm-3pm
From Vikings to Romans to Knights, they all needed swashbuckling swords. Make your own to take home this weekend!
Fri 9 Nov
DIWALI - SPECIAL LATE NIGHT OPENING
6pm-8pm
Celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights with this special late night opening. Visitors can enjoy a spectacular shadow puppet show, traditional puja prayers to the goddess Lakshmi, food tasting, games, dancing and much more. The Museum will be decorated in spectacular style with diyas, flowers and lanterns made by the community, and the first 100 children will receive a free flower garland. Charges apply.
Sat 10 Nov
GO GO GO
1pm-4pm
We’ve teamed up with Durham Go Club for a special afternoon of board game fun. With expert tutors, learn how to play the ancient Chinese game of Go, and pick up a free Go set to take home (while stocks last).
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Oriental Museum
Sat 10 & Sun 11 Nov
LUCET WEAVING
1pm-3pm
The Anglo-Saxons made beautiful bracelets and trims for their clothes. Join us to make your very own bracelet by trying out the ancient technique of lucet weaving.
Sat 17 Nov
MEET A SIKH
1pm-3pm
Chat to members of the local Sikh community and get hands-on with Sikh objects. Find out about the religions of the world with our new gallery trail.
Sat 17 & Sun 18 Nov
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS WEEKEND
10am-3pm
Sat 17 & Sun 18 Nov 1pm-3pm
Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will be demonstrating their skills in the garden. Les takes much of his inspiration from the History of Durham, in particular St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Viv works with traditional paper crafts such as embossing, quilling, parchment work and many more techniques.
COLOURFUL CROWNS Durham Castle has had many Prince Bishops live in it, from Bishop Cosins who made Palace Green Library, to Bishop Tunstall who knew Henry VIII. Make a colourful crown so you can live in our Castle.
Sat 24 Nov
SCARY SCARABS
1pm-3pm
Find out why the Ancient Egyptians were fascinated by scarab beetles and make a scarab pendant to wear.
Sat 24 & Sun 25 Nov
BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT
1pm-3pm
To celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, Catch Your Breath, we would like to invite you to make a pair of lungs that can expand and deflate. Use your breath to make it work!
Fri 30 Nov
DURHAM ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
10am-6pm
Durham’s award-winning 25th annual Christmas Festival returns, with a wide range of festive entertainment for all the family. Charges apply. See website for more information: www.durhamchristmasfestival.com
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Botanic Garden
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Durham City and Palace Green
DECEMBER Sat 1 to Fri 21 Dec
WINTER WONDERLAND
10am-4pm
Pick up a leaflet from the Visitor Centre and see what you can discover in the garden. This is a self-led activity, and subject to availability of spotter sheets.
Sat 1 Dec
HAPPY HORSES
1pm-3pm
Spot the Chinese horses on display and make your own super stallion to take home.
Sat 1 Dec
DURHAM ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
9am-6pm
Durham’s award-winning 25th annual Christmas Festival returns, with a wide range of festive entertainment for all the family. Charges apply. See website for more information: www. durhamchristmasfestival.com
Sat 2 Dec 10am-4.30pm
Sat 1 & Sun 2 Dec 1pm-3pm
Sat 8 Dec 1pm-3pm
ORIGAMI LANTERNS Have you ever made origami? Make one today and use your breath to make it come to life. You can use them to decorate your home for Christmas.
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY TOUCH TOUR: THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Botanic Garden
Oriental Museum
Durham City and Palace Green
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Visitors with dementia and their caregivers are invited to a sensory touch tour. Explore objects all related to houses and homes. Places are limited, booking essential. To find out more or for bookings, visit: www.durham.ac.uk/ oriental.museum. Free of charge.
Sat 8 Dec
MIGHTY MOUNTAIN ZINES
1pm-3pm
See our exhibition, Scaling the Heights, and make your own fabulous maga-ZINE. Collage, print, paint and craft your way to the summit and create your own piece of artwork.
Oriental Museum
Sat 8 & Sun 9 Dec
AIR BALL GAME
1pm-3pm
Design your own mini ball game, but remember you can only move the pieces with a straw and your breath!
Sat 15 Dec
SLITHERY SNAKES
1pm-3pm
See our Japanese iron snake and make your own slithery creature.
Sat 15 & Sun 16 Dec
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!
1pm-3pm
It’s nearly Christmas and we think you can never have too many decorations! Visit us this weekend and go home with your very own Christmas decoration to get you into the Christmas spirit.
Sat 22 Dec
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD
1pm-3pm
Find out how Christmas is celebrated around the world and make your own Christmas decorations to take home.
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
JANUARY Wed 2 to Thur 31 Jan
WINTER WONDERLAND
10am-4pm
Pick up a leaflet from the Visitor Centre and see what you can discover in the garden. This is a self-led activity, and subject to availability of spotter sheets.
Sat 5 Jan
HAPPY HEDGEHOGS
1pm-3pm
Come and see our beautiful Middle-Eastern hedgehog pot and make your own spiky hedgehog to take home.
Sat 5 & Sun 6 Jan
SWIRLING SNOWFLAKES
1pm-3pm
I wish it would snow so I could see the snowflakes fall! Make a swirling snowflake to hang in your window.
Botanic Garden
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Sat 12 Jan
ENTICING SPICES
1pm-3pm
Make a scented picture using Indian herbs and spices.
Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jan
BALLOON POWER RACERS
1pm-3pm
Use science, engineering, maths and technology to make a car powered by just your breath. On your marks, get set, GO!
Sat 19 Jan
AWESOME ARCHAEOLOGY
1pm-3pm
Find out about the ancient Indus Civilisation and make an Indus animal figure from clay.
Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jan
MARVELLOUS MUSIC
1pm-3pm
Our exhibition, Catch Your Breath, is all about how you can use your breath. Create your own musical panpipes to make a sweet sound powered by your breath.
Sat 26 Jan
TALES FROM THE HEART OF WINTER
11am-3pm
Join Elizabeth Baker, from Tillytoo Tales Storytelling, as we celebrate National Storytelling Week with some frosty fables and snowy stories. It might be cold outside, but it’s warm in the greenhouse and Elizabeth’s stories are bound to fire your imagination! There’ll be some winter crafts too.
Sat 26 Jan
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Botanic Garden
Oriental Museum
1pm-3pm
ARTY EGYPTIANS See our new art exhibition and make your own piece of Ancient Egyptian-inspired art. A must for budding archaeologists!
Sat 26 & Sun 27 Jan 1pm-3pm
RAINBOW BLOWER Brighten up your day by making a rainbow blower in our Museum today and use your breath to make all the colours dance!
Palace Green Library
FEBRUARY Fri 1 to Thur 28 Feb 10am-4pm
SIGNS OF SPRING Pick up a leaflet from the Visitor Centre and see what you can discover in the garden. This is a self-led activity, and subject to availability of spotter sheets.
Sat 2 Feb
MONSTER MASKS
1pm-3pm
Find out about Setsubu, the Japanese coming of Spring festival and make a terrifying Oni mask.
Sat 2 & Sun 3 Feb
PATRIOTIC POSTERS
1pm-3pm
Visit our Durham Light Infantry gallery this weekend and make a Patriotic Poster using our stamping tools. Your country needs you!
Sat 9 Feb
CROWDCRAFT: THE YEAR OF THE PIG
1pm-3pm
Get ready for Lunar New Year and make Chinese lanterns and paper cuts to decorate the Museum.
Sat 9 & Sun 10 Feb
SUPER SEA SHELLS
1pm-3pm
People throughout history have used shells for many different uses, some people believe that shells can capture your voice. Make your own magical shell to take home.
Sat 16 Feb
SUPER SEAFARERS
1pm-3pm
See our new photography exhibition about the Cham people of Southeast Asia. Follow in their seafaring footsteps and make a boat from recycled materials.
Sat 16 & Sun 17 Feb
PARTY BLOWERS
1pm-3pm
You always need a party blower at a celebration! Celebrate our exhibition and make your own party blower.
Botanic Garden
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Tue 19 Feb
HALF-TERM BUBBLE ART
1pm-3pm
This half-term join us for some bubble art fun! Inspired by our exhibition, Catch Your Breath, blow the bubbles and make them pop to create your masterpiece.
Tue 19 Feb
Palace Green Library
Durham Castle
2.15pm
FAMILY FUN TOUR Enjoy a family-focused tour around Durham Castle, with activities for children throughout the tour. Explore what it was like to live and work in Durham Castle in the past and find out more about some of the characters that have made Durham Castle their home over the centuries. Normal charges apply and please book in advance to avoid disappointment. Contact castle.tours@durham.ac.uk or +44 (191) 334 2932 to book your place.
Tue 19 Feb 6pm-8pm
LUNAR NEW YEAR LANTERN FESTIVAL: LATE NIGHT SPECIAL OPENING
Oriental Museum
Join us for a late night opening at the Oriental Museum to mark the Lunar New Year. For one night only see the Museum lit only by lanterns. Try fantastic crafts, sample delicious New Year food and drink, listen to stories and enjoy a gallery hunt. First 100 children receive a free lantern. Charges apply. Wed 20 Feb
CRAZY CATS
1pm-3pm
Cats were worshipped in Ancient Egypt. Find out why and make your own mummified cat.
Thurs 21 Feb
FAMILY FUN TOUR
2.15pm
Enjoy a family-focused tour around Durham Castle, with activities for children throughout the tour. Explore what it was like to live and work in Durham Castle in the past and find out more about some of the characters that have made Durham Castle their home over the centuries. Normal charges apply and please book in advance to avoid disappointment. Contact castle.tours@durham.ac.uk or +44 (191) 334 2932 to book your place.
Oriental Museum
Durham Castle
Fri 22 Feb
AUTISM FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES: PREHISTORIC POTS
10.30am-12.30pm
Children with autism, learning or sensory impairments and their families can take part in our quiet-time crafts. See a real 5,000 year old pot on display and make your own pot from clay.
Fri 22 Feb
PREHISTORIC POTS
Oriental Museum
1pm-3pm
Oriental See a real 5,000 year old pot and make your own pot from clay. Museum
Sat 23 Feb
SUPER SWORDS
1pm-3pm
Explore the swords on display and make your own super sword to take home.
Sat 23 Feb
ACCESSIBLE TOUCH TOUR
2pm-4pm
Visitors with visual impairments are invited to this touch tour of Indian and South-East Asian objects. With the help of our staff, visitors will be able to handle specially selected Museum objects. Places are limited, booking essential. To find out more and to book, visit www.durham.ac.uk/ oriental.museum. Free of charge.
Sat 23 & Sun 24 Feb
CATCH YOUR WORDS
1pm-3pm
Write a letter to your lungs, what have you got to thank them for? Why are they so important to us?
Oriental Museum
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
MARCH Fri 1 to Sun 31 Mar 10am-4pm
SIGNS OF SPRING Pick up a leaflet from the Visitor Centre and see what you can discover in the garden. This is a self-led activity, and subject to availability of spotter sheets.
Botanic Garden
Sat 2 Mar
CELEBRATE JAPANESE HINA MATSURI
1pm-3pm
See our complete set of traditional Hina Matsuri dolls, only displayed for a short time each year, in the run up to the Hina Matsuri, and create your own Emperor and Empress dolls to take home.
Sat 2 & Sun 3 Mar
BRILLIANT BADGES
1pm-3pm
Celebrate our exhibition, Catch Your Breath, and make a brilliant badge inspired by what you have seen.
Sat 9 Mar
HOORAY FOR HORUS
1pm-3pm
Find out about the Ancient Egyptian god Horus and his friends Anubis and Hathor and make an Egyptian amulet.
Sat 9 & Sun 10 Mar
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
1pm-3pm
PERFECT POETRY Our Library houses many amazing books, including poetry books. Make your own poem inspired by our library.
Sat 16 Mar
GREAT GAMES
1pm-3pm
Find out about Chinese games and make a spillikins game to take home.
Sat 16 & Sun 17 Mar
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS WEEKEND
10am-4pm
Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will be demonstrating their skills in the garden. Les takes much of his inspiration from the History of Durham, in particular St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Viv works with traditional paper crafts such as embossing, quilling, parchment work and many more techniques.
Oriental Museum
Botanic Garden
Sat 16 & Sun 17 Mar 1pm-3pm
WONDERFUL WINDMILLS We can use our breath as energy to power machines. Why not make a windmill and spin it round with your breath!
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Sat 23 Mar 12noon-5pm
HOLI FESTIVAL Welcome the spring season to Durham with a special Holi Festival! The event will include timed powder throws with a free environmentally and skinkind powder sachet of brightly coloured Holi powder for each participant. Alongside powder throws, there will also be free craft activities with a ticket. For more information visit the website www.durham.ac.uk/ oriental.museum. Charges apply.
Sat 23 & Sun 24 Mar
PLUMES AND POM POMS
1pm-3pm
The soldiers of Durham Light Infantry often decorated their hats with pom poms. Would you make one to decorate your hat?
Sat 30 Mar
BEAUTIFUL BUNNIES
1pm-3pm
See our super cute Japanese rabbit on display and make your own rabbit puppet.
Sat 30 & Sun 31 Mar
ROCKING ROMANS
1pm-3pm
The Romans loved to adorn their walls with beautiful mosaics. Visit us today and make your own mosaic to decorate your home.
Palace Green Library
Oriental Museum
Palace Green Library
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS ORIENTAL MUSEUM 21 Sept 2018 - 21 Dec 2018 Scaling the Heights: Miniature Mountaineering An exhibition, by Stephen Livingstone and Abbie Garrington, which explores the rich heritage of mountaineering literature, by recreating historic Himalayan expeditions in miniature. A pair of vintage Action Man figures climb the towering shelves of important mountaineering libraries and archives, scaling the heights of human knowledge, endeavour and endurance. With specially commissioned suminagashi marbling by Kate Livingstone.
PALACE GREEN LIBRARY 24 Nov 2018 - 17 Mar 2019 Catch Your Breath Palace Green Library’s free exhibition will discover new ways of thinking about breath and breathlessness and their relationship to illness and wellbeing. It will bring together medical history, philosophy, art, literature and music to show how breathing is more than just a bodily function; it affects our experience of life. Alongside the exhibition will be a varied programme of activities and events for all ages. Catch Your Breath’s opening weekend (Sat 24 & Sun 25 Nov) will be full
of family activities, so check Palace Green Library’s website for more information: www.durham.ac.uk/palace.green
ORIENTAL MUSEUM Jan 2019 - May 2019 Art Studio: Ancient Egypt The Art Studio is a Sunderlandbased mental health charity that provides support to improve the lives of members through art. Members of the Art Studio have taken part in a series of workshops at the Oriental Museum focused on the Museum’s collections. During these visits, members discovered and learnt about the Ancient Egyptian collections at the Museum and created art inspired by these visits and the Museum artefacts. The art displayed reflects the varied interests of group members. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media and styles.
ORIENTAL MUSEUM Jan 2019 - May 2019 Cham Centuries The Cham are a diverse group of seafaring Muslim and Hindu communities from Southeast Asia. Historically, Cham territory included several kingdoms in what is today Central and Southern Vietnam. This Cham ‘federation’ disintegrated following decisive Vietnamese defeats in the fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries, prompting some Cham to take refuge on Hainan island in the South China Sea. Others took waterborne flight to the Mekong Delta spanning Cambodia and Vietnam. In the 1970s, Cham were among the many persecuted groups during Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thousands fled as refugees to Malaysia and as far as the United States, France, Australia and Canada. These varied and repeated experiences of forced displacement have created communities that share common heritage but now live very different lives. This exhibition by photographer James Seabright, builds on research into these diverse communities undertaken by researchers from SGIA, at Durham University.
NEW
ACCESSIBLE TOURS The Oriental Museum runs regular tours for visitors with sensory impairments. To find out more about our programme of touch tours please visit: www.durham.ac.uk/ oriental.museum
DURHAM WORLD HERITAGE SITE
WORLD HERITAGE SITE VISITOR CENTRE
DURHAM CASTLE GUIDED TOURS
The World Heritage Site Visitor Centre, on Owengate, Palace Green, enhances the experience of visitors to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Durham Cathedral and Castle. The Visitor Centre provides visitors with an overview of what a World Heritage Site is, what makes Durham significant, and what there is to see and do on the peninsula.
Durham Castle is a unique building with over 900 years of history. Today it is a Grade I Listed Building, an Accredited Museum, part of the World Heritage Site and home to University College, the founding college of Durham University. Enjoy a tour round this unique building and discover some of the history that has put Durham on the map.
The Visitor Centre also provides a central point of information about places to visit on the World Heritage Site including the Castle and the Cathedral with its Claustral Buildings housing the Treasures of St Cuthbert. The Centre also complements the work of Durham University Palace Green Library on the opposite side of the green.
Tours during University Terms 8 Oct - 20 Dec 2018 14 Jan - 22 Mar 2019
Like the rest of the World Heritage Site, the Visitor Centre provides interactive experiences for visitors including exhibitions, performances and hands-on, family activities. The World Heritage Site Visitor Centre can be contacted on visitor.centre@durham.ac.uk or on +44 (0)191 334 3805. For more information on the Durham World Heritage Site visit: www.durhamworldheritagesite.com
Tours are normally available every afternoon of the week at 1.15pm, 2.15pm, 3.15pm and 4.15pm. Tours during University Vacations 28 Mar - 26 Apr 2019 Tours are normally available every morning of the week at 10.15am and 11.15am and in the afternoons, when there are no events, at 12.15pm, 2.15pm, 3.15pm and 4.15pm. To book a tour and for daily information on guided tour times visit www.durham.ac.uk/durham.castle or contact Palace Green Library on +44 (0)191 334 2932 or the World Heritage Site Visitor Centre on +44 (0)191 334 3805 or look online.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS Durham University has a wealth of other attractions, offering a range of events, musicals, concerts, lectures and workshops for all ages. For the full listing visit www.durham.ac.uk/whatson or visit the individual sites below.
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY (IAS) The IAS offers an extensive and thought-provoking programme of public lectures and seminars covering a myriad of topics, all tackling themes of public interest. Talks are free and open to all. Please visit our website for more information and lecture listings: www.durham.ac.uk/ias Institute of Advanced Study Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2589 Email: enquiries.ias@durham.ac.uk
DURHAM STUDENT THEATRE (DST) With an exciting variety of cutting edge drama, epic musicals, hilarious sketch comedy and intimate productions, DST brings the best of British and International theatre to Durham. Please visit our website for more information and performance listings: www.durham.ac.uk/DST Durham Student Theatre Tel: +44 (0)191 334 1419 Email: student.theatre@durham.ac.uk
MUSICON
Musicon is the University’s Public Concert Series. Administered by the Department of Music, Musicon promotes twelve concerts throughout the year, as well as a regular lunchtime concert series. Please visit our website for more information and performance listings: www.durham.ac.uk/musicon.concerts Musicon Tel: +44 (0)191 334 3156
DURHAM UNIVERSITY VENUES
ORIENTAL MUSEUM Elvet Hill, Durham DH1 3TH Tel: +44 (0)191 334 5694 oriental.museum@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/oriental.museum Opening times: Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm Weekends & Bank Holidays: 12noon5pm
BOTANIC GARDEN Hollingside Lane, Durham DH1 3TN Tel: +44 (0)191 334 5518 botanic.garden@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/botanic.garden Opening times: Mar – Oct, 10am5pm. Nov – Feb, 10am-4pm.
Admission: Adults: £1.50, Child (5-16) & 60+: £0.75, Family (2+3): £3.50, Students & U5s: FREE Additional information: Wheelchair access, accessible toilet, babychanging, café, shop and limited free parking. Admission: Adults: £4, Child (5-16): £1.50, 60+, Wheelchair Users and Reg. Disabled: £3, Students & U5s: FREE. Additional information: Wheelchair access, accessible toilet, baby-changing, café, shop and free parking.
PALACE GREEN LIBRARY: EXHIBITIONS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2932 pg.custodian@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/palace.green Opening times: Mon: 12noon-4.45pm Tues – Fri: 10am-4.45pm
Admission: For exhibition admission charges please visit website. Additional information: Wheelchair access, accessible toilet, babychanging, café and shop.
See website for details of programme.
DURHAM CASTLE Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RW Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2932 castle.tours@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/durham.castle Guided tours: Adult £5, Concessions (60+, students, U16s) £4,
Family day ticket (2+3) £15, Group rates (10+) £4.50, Child / Senior citizen £3.50. Additional information: Limited wheelchair access, please speak to staff for specific details.
MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY Palace Green Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2932 archaeology.museum@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/archaeology.museum Opening times: Mon: 12noon-4.45pm Tue – Sun: 10am-4.45pm
Admission: Free of charge Additional information: Accessible toilet, baby-changing, café and shop
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