What's On
Find out about all the brilliant exhibitions, events & activities happening across our five museums.
Collections
Barnsley Museums are proud to look after the borough's unique collections of objects, artworks, and archives. We love to share these treasures and their many, inspiring stories at our museums and galleries and online.
Schools
Barnsley Museums provides innovative ways to explore our sites, objects and outdoor spaces through inspiring and engaging learning programmes which challenge and delight pupils of all ages.
Volunteering
From caring for our beautiful parks and engaging visitors, to archival research and finding out Barnsley’s history in our discovery centre. We have a range of volunteer opportunities that can suit you and your commitments.
Accessibility
Accessibility information for Barnsley Museums
Quest For The Eldon Beast Choose Your Own Adventure Game
We need your help! The Eldon Beast has gone missing and without it Eldon Street will descend into chaos. It was last seen heading to the Goblin Underworld. Can you track it down by solving riddles and making the right decisions?
Storying Barnsley Research Opportunity
The Storying Barnsley team are looking to commission a consultant to conduct a research project on Black, Asian and Global Ethnic Majority/Ethnically Diverse communities’ arts and culture engagement in Barnsley.
Barnsley Museums celebrates local heritage in a national festival of culture
This month, Barnsley Museums is celebrating cultural heritage from across the borough, with some venues hosting Heritage Open Days.
New Barnsley Archives Accessible On-line
Thousands of records relating to Barnsley people can be accessed online through an exciting partnership with Ancestry.
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