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Family Activities: Fab Faces

Spot the intricately carved wooden face, roots and all, and make your own fantastical face collage.

13 September 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Oriental Museum

  • Accessible
  • Creative
  • Family friendly

Little Dragons

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.

17 September 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Oriental Museum

  • Creative
  • Public
  • Family friendly

Family Activities: Celebrating Rosh Hashanah

Find out about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year festival, and make a shofar musical instrument

20 September 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Oriental Museum

  • Accessible
  • Creative
  • Family friendly

Little Dragons

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.

24 September 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Oriental Museum

  • Creative
  • Public
  • Family friendly

Twilight Talks - John Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio

Join Associate Professor Emily Rohrbach of Durham University as she explores Romantic poet John Keats's creative encounter with his predecessor Shakespeare, focusing on the young poet’s engagement with Shakespeare through his facsimile copy of the 1623 folio. In that book, Keats inscribed an original poem in the space left by the printer between the end of Hamlet and the beginning of King Lear.

25 September 2025

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Museum of Archaeology Palace Green Library Palace Green Durham DH1 3RN

  • Lecture
  • Outreach & community
  • Public
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Library and Collections

Family Activities: Falling into Autumn

Spot the first signs of autumn and make some autumn leaf art.

27 September 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Oriental Museum

  • Accessible
  • Creative
  • Family friendly

Little Dragons

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.

01 October 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Oriental Museum

  • Creative
  • Public
  • Family friendly

Little Dragons

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.

08 October 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Oriental Museum

  • Creative
  • Public
  • Family friendly

Little Dragons

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.

15 October 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Oriental Museum

  • Creative
  • Public
  • Family friendly

Little Dragons

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.

22 October 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Oriental Museum

  • Creative
  • Public
  • Family friendly