What’s On Events Calendar
Building closure - upcoming dates
Due to extensive roofing works at Palace Green Library, there will be times when we have to close the building to visitors between summer 2024 and spring 2025, with no access to Museum of Archaeology, Cosin’s Library, Penned and Printed exhibition and World Heritage Site Visitor Centre.
Visit our Tickets and Times pages at each venue for more information.
Introduction to International Boundaries: Definition, Delimitation and Dispute Resolution
01 January 2021 - 31 December 2025
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
This online training course provides a simple, contextual overview of international boundaries and the practical measures that can be taken to resolve international boundary disputes. Through a series of short online lectures and a final practical exercise, the course explores the relevance of borders and looks at land and maritime boundary disputes, before covering methods available for dispute resolution.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Where Are We Now? Exhibition
01 June 2023 - 31 December 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
"Where Are We Now?" is an art exhibition exploring the present and future of Modern Languages and Cultures at a local and global level.
- Exhibition
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
07 June 2023 - 10 September 2023
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Oriental Museum
This moving exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, highlights the devastation wreaked by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
- Exhibitions
- Everyone
Durham Business School Postgraduate Events
01 September 2023 - 31 August 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Our Events will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Business School has to offer for postgraduate study.
- Open days & visits
Register for an Undergraduate Open Day
01 September 2023 - 31 August 2024
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Our Open Days are the best way for you to find out about Durham.
- Open days & visits
Join a Postgraduate Open Day
01 September 2023 - 31 August 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Our Open Days will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham has to offer for postgraduate study.
- Open days & visits
Self-Guided Tours
01 September 2023 - 31 August 2024
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tours have audio descriptions, images and videos as well as lots of information and statistics.
- Open days & visits
Eat Medieval Summer School - a week of cooking lessons, history and unique cuisine
04 September 2023 - 08 September 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Learn about how our ancestors cooked and ate at a five-day medieval cooking course hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle from 4th to 8th September 2023.
- Outreach & community
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Public
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
ENVECHO X European Workshop on Discrete Choice Experiments
04 September 2023 - 05 September 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This year's annual meeting of the European scientific network of researchers using Discrete Choice Modelling in the field of environmental valuation (https://envecho.com/) will take place at Durham University Business School, hosted by the Centre for Environmental and Energy Economics (CE3) on the 4th and 5th of September.
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
What’s on across our venues
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Historic Libraries at Palace Green, Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. Whatever your interest, there's something for everyone to enjoy.