What’s On Events Calendar
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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.
The long aftermath: how Hiroshima and Nagasaki shaped and were shaped by postwar history
19 July 2023 - 19 July 2023
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Oriental Museum
The two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki unquestionably altered the course of the twentieth century. Yet their impact was not predetermined in August of 1945 but unfolded in historically-contingent ways over several decades.
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Public
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Everyone
Spatial Objects at Durham Castle, Tour Led by Artist Dan Holdsworth
20 July 2023 - 20 July 2023
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Durham Castle
As a part of the Summer in the City Arts Festival and in celebration of his new temporary exhibition 'Spatial Objects', join artist Dan Holdsworth on a tour of this exhibition at Durham Castle.
- Tour
- Everyone
- Students in HE
- Young People
Ancient Egyptian Super Sobek
22 July 2023 - 22 July 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
See our newest Ancient Egyptian object on display - a huge plaster cast of a temple wall and make an Ancient Egyptian collage featuring the crocodile-headed god, Sobek.
- Creative
- Outreach & community
- Everyone
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.
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