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Teeny Time travellers on Tour - Cannon Hall

Cannon Hall

Teeny Time travellers on Tour - Cannon Hall

Teeny Time Travellers on Tour. Our signature U5s session is going on tour! Join us in the Walled Garden at Cannon Hall Museum for a garden inspired holiday special!

Pop-up Archives - Hoyland Library

Hoyland Library

Pop-up Archives - Hoyland Library

Join the Archives and Local Studies team as they travel around the borough each month to a different library venue.

Young Inventors

Elsecar Heritage Centre

Young Inventors

Step into the world of invention at Young Inventors, a dynamic and hands-on workshop where children are invited to dream big and design their own wild and wonderful machines guided by our friendly facilitators.

Sports Day

Experience Barnsley

Sports Day

Remember those heady days when you almost won the egg and spoon and came second from last in the sack race?

Brilliant Board Games

Experience Barnsley

Brilliant Board Games

People have been making and playing board games for centuries, from the Ancient Egyptians playing Senet, to families today playing classics such as Hungry Hippos and Monopoly.

Disability in Ancient Egypt - Lecture by Kyle Jordan

Cooper Gallery

Disability in Ancient Egypt - Lecture by Kyle Jordan

Kyle Jordan is passionate about improving knowledge and understanding of disability in ancient Egypt and wider antiquity and has given many talks and papers on the subject.

The Egyptian Labyrinth: The Middle Kingdom and the Faiyum Region

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.