Join Wendy from Wakefield Libraries to explore fascinating photos of Pontefract from the last 100 years.
Bring your budding young writers and enjoy a walk and write around Pontefract Castle together!
It's the return of our frighteningly popular Witches and Wizards week!
Picture Pontefract in a new perspective. Explore the town through the eyes of artists, craftspeople and map makers.
In the early 1900s, a new wonder material began to appear in our homes. Discover the history, impact and future of plastics.
Join us for a tour of the Pontefract Castle dungeon! Soak in the atmosphere of this eerie underground space.
Learn about history where it happened on an Explorer Tour! Walk in the footsteps of royalty and Civil War soldiers.
Join our friendly Castleford Museum team, rain or shine, for free fun craft activities every Saturday.
Join our friendly Pontefract Museum team, rain or shine, for free fun craft activities every Saturday.
Join our friendly Wakefield Museum team, rain or shine, for free fun craft activities every Saturday.
Get hands-on with history! Handle real historical objects from our collection.
Drop into our reference room to discover a treasure trove of photos, newspaper clippings and more.
Our monthly Meet the Curator sessions are your chance to chat with our team. Bring your objects, stories or questions!
Explore Castleford's colourful and crafty past and try out a different activity each month.
Join Ilbert the Dragon for a fun afternoon of storytelling and hands-on play.
Get creative and discover a new side to Pontefract Castle in this welcoming poetry workshop and walk.
A special weekly session for our littlest visitors! Meet Alphabet Cat and take part in activities, rhymes and more.
Join Charlie Bear every Tuesday during term time for a lively session of storytelling, crafts and rhymes!
Get hands-on with history at Castleford Museum! Handle real historical objects.
Enjoy friendly craft sessions and learn about your local area at Wakefield Museum.
Enjoy friendly craft sessions and learn about your local area at Pontefract Castle.
Join 'Richard Holmes' on a lantern-lit tour of Pontefract Castle, illuminating its dark history.
Unlock the secrets of Wakefield Museum on a code and cipher trail! Send secret messages of your own.
Don your detective cap this half term! Solve peculiar puzzles and unlock our museum mysteries.
Join us for the SEND session of our frighteningly popular Witches and Wizards week activities!
Join Detective Ted for a cosy storytelling session all about a mystery that needs to be solved!
Let's get arty! Make a personalised sketch book and try out urban sketching on a sketch tour.
Relaxed family festive fun and a visit from Father Christmas!*
Meet our special sweet Santa in his Liquorice grotto and receive a Christmas gift!
We’ve joined forces with the Featherstone Rovers Foundation for the first ever museum display celebrating Learning Disability Rugby League.
Discover Pontefract Museum through play, sign-supported English and making connections.
Explore the world of medieval medicine. Concoct your own herbal remedies for medieval patients!
Join us for a special broadcast from the British Museum. Learn all about the Bayeux Tapestry!
Take inspiration from the Bayeux Tapestry and get creative. Make your very own textile crafts to take home!
Discover how comics can tell local history stories. Become a comic book artist yourself!
Learn all about Pontefract Castle's Norman history! Examine the Castle's remains for evidence of its origins.
Explore the diary pages of soldier George Kellett. Learn about George's life through first-hand accounts.
Get messy, creative and curious with Lo-fi Alchemists! Investigate the colourful world of natural dyes.
Become a treasure hunter! Follow clues on a map to discover 'treasure', and create your own maps.
Distinguish historical fact from fiction in our fun myth-busting game! Create your own game to take away.
Explore the Victorian world of patchwork! Make your own patchwork-style Christmas stocking.
Visit South Elmsall Library Museum Hub and discover toys from the past!
Join in with free lantern making workshops at Pontefract Castle.
Explore the traditional art of batik to create your own beautiful seasonal masterpiece.
Use Powertex, fabric and mixed media techniques to create seasonal 3D masterpieces.
Discover fantastic facts about amazing creatures! Sort fact from fiction and get hands-on with some animals.
Join the Lo-Fi Alchemists for free Halloween-inspired creative activities.
Meet local author Gail C. Powell at this special spooky author event! Be inspired to create your own mysterious tales...
Transform plain candles into beautifully decorated Christmas gifts.
Design and make your own silver ring and brass necklace! Learn how to use basic jewellery making tools.
Craft a stunning willow lantern and be inspired by the colours of autumn.
Get creative with Powertex and make a gorgeous handmade wreath.
Discover the Japanese art of Kinusaiga! Transform fabric scraps into a stunning work of art.
Get creative this festive season and make your own no-sew Christmas stocking to take away!
Celebrate the joy of shops and the market at Castleford this Christmas and enjoy some festive crafts!
Discover the history of Glasshoughton's Grade II listed urinal with a talk from Castleford Civic Society.
Learn about the three key sieges of Pontefract Castle with our fantastic volunteers!
We’re going back to school in Ossett! Discover how local school life has changed over the last 200 years.
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