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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.
Experience Barnsley
Teeny Time Travellers - Nov & Dec
Held on Fridays during term time, our little adventurers have the chance to play, explore, make, share stories and sing. There are plenty of toys to play with and there is a different themed activity each week. Snacks are provided.
Goldthorpe Library
Pop-up Archives - Goldthorpe
Join the Archives and Local Studies team when they visit the library to ask your questions about local and family history.
Cannon Hall
A Cannon Hall Christmas
Step into the magic of the season and see Cannon Hall beautifully decorated in traditional festive style. Wander through the hall and enjoy the sights, scents and sparkle of a classic Christmas.
Cooper Gallery
The Egyptian Labyrinth: The Middle Kingdom and the Faiyum Region
The Faiyum oasis is a basin 62 miles south of Cairo. It seems to have been particularly significant during the Middle Kingdom, when the new capital city, Ity-Tawy, was established nearby, and in the Ptolemaic Period when it was extensively cultivated.
Cannon Hall
A Cannon Hall Christmas - Stir-Up Sunday
Celebrate the traditional start of the festive saeson with a hands-on experience in our historic Victorian kitchen. Make your own Christmas pudding, ready to cook and keep until the big day then head into the Servant's Hall to get creative decorating a festive biscuit - perfect for all ages!
Cannon Hall
A Cannon Hall Christmas - Christmas is Coming Market
Start your festive season in style at our Christmas is Coming Market! Wander through a delightful array of makers' stalls offering treats, gifts and seasonal surprises to kick off your Christmas shopping.
Archives and Local Studies
House History Surgeries
Free one-to-one 30 minute sessions for a beginner's guide to house history, introducing you to various resources including building plans, house sales brochures, maps, electoral registers and websites.
Learning Lab, Experience Barnsley
Hands on History - Mining the Past Project
Join Barnsley Archives and Local Studies as they team up with the University of Warwick to showcase records relating to the mining heritage of the area. Come and see examples of items from ‘Mining the Past’, a project to conserve, catalogue and open up the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) held at the university.
Town Hall, Council Chamber
History of the Mines Rescue Service Talk
Join Phil Clifford, who will give an illustrated presentation detailing the early years in the development of the Mines Rescue Service in the UK and explain how the first ever mines rescue station came to be built at Birdwell.