What’s On Events Calendar

Learn more about the current exhibition hosted inside Durham Castle and have more time to enjoy it at the end of a standard tour.

• Exhibition
• Public
• Tour
• Everyone

Palace Green Library is open until 7pm the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.

• Exhibitions
• Lates
• Public
• Everyone

Cuthbert Tunstall is one of Durham’s most interesting and least understood Bishops. Not just a religious figure, Cuthbert was a diplomat, mathematician, book collector and gardener who survived and thrived in Tudor England. Find out more in this talk.

• Exhibition
• Lecture
• Everyone

An exhibition of our Archives and Special Collections, telling hidden stories from the shelves and strongrooms.

• Exhibition
• Everyone

Celebrate the most important day in the Buddhist calendar and join us for making, meditation, talks on Buddhism and traditional Buddha Bathing. Suitable for all the family.

• Creative
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Festival
• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Everyone

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.

• Creative
• Public

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.

• Creative
• Public

Find out about our archers' thumb rings and make a mini bow and arrow set to take home.

• Creative
• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Everyone

Learn more about the current exhibition hosted inside Durham Castle and have more time to enjoy it at the end of a standard tour.

• Exhibition
• Public
• Tour
• Everyone

Oriental Museum is open until 7pm the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.

• Exhibitions
• Lates
• Public
• Everyone

Find out why the Ancient Egyptians placed shabti figures inside their tombs and create your own shabti from clay.

• Outreach & community
• Public
• Everyone

Spot the magical hintha bird on display and make your own feathery friend to take home.

• Creative
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Everyone

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.

• Accessible
• Public

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

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.

• Accessible
• Public

Learn more about the current exhibition hosted inside Durham Castle and have more time to enjoy it at the end of a standard tour.

• Exhibition
• Public
• Tour
• Everyone

Palace Green Library is open until 7pm the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.

• Exhibitions
• Lates
• Public
• Everyone

Take a look at some x-rays of the Ancient Egyptian animal mummies on display and make your own x-ray picture.

• Creative
• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Everyone

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.

• Accessible
• Public

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.

• Accessible
• Public