What's On
Christmas at Barnsley Museums
Celebrate the festive season with Barnsley Museums as we welcome winter with warmth, creativity, and community spirit. Across our five unique sites, you’ll find a joyful mix of seasonal events, exhibitions, and activities designed to delight visitors of all ages.
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Experience Barnsley Museum
Exhibition: Stories of Childhood
Explore, reminisce and play! From christenings to cricket, samplers to school hats, toys and teddies, discover over a hundred years of growing up in Barnsley.
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The Cooper Gallery
Barnsley’s Radical Collector: The Sadler Gift from Turner to Bloomsbury
From the remarkable art collection at The Cooper Gallery, experience an exhibition featuring instinctive sketches, atmospheric watercolours and bold modern paintings.
Worsbrough Mill
Follow the mice!
Use these maps or follow the lime green and purple mice markers for a short and accessible walk around the country park.
Cannon Hall
Studio Ceramics display
From 23 October to 23 December 2025 a small collection of studio ceramics will be on display in the Oak Room at Cannon Hall Museum.
Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
10 Years of Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust Display
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust, Barnsley Archives have created a display which showcases some of the items that have been purchased or conserved thanks to the generous donations of supporters of the Trust.
Online
The Barnsley Museums Advent Calendar
Have you opened today's door of the advent calendar? We've also got lots more online festive treats for you.
Wentworth Castle Gardens
Orienteering Trail
Explore Wentworth Castle Gardens in a new way with our orienteering courses.
Wentworth Castle Gardens
Beginners’ Running group
Meet like-minded people and build up your fitness in the beautiful surroundings of Wentworth Castle Gardens.
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Barnsley Archives & Local Studies
Hands on History - Exploring School Days
Join the Archives team in the Town Hall to explore documents and photographs about school days, focusing in this session on the west of Barnsley borough.