What’s On Events Calendar

Jointly organised by the Palace Museum and the Oriental Museum

• Exhibition
• Exhibitions
• Public
• Family friendly
• Global
• Everyone

View the shortlisted artworks from this years Student Art Prize.

• Creative
• Exhibition
• Exhibitions
• Public
• Student experience
• Alumni
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Friends of Palace Green Library
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Public debut of the Huang Kam Chak Yee Collection

• Exhibitions
• Everyone

See our huge plaster cast of an Ancient Egyptian temple wall and make your own crocodile-headed god puppet.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Join us for an afternoon of inspiring objects from the Museum of Archaeology and creative writing.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Workshop
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• School students
• Teachers / Home Educators
• Young People

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Check out an amazing Korean sculpture and then make a seascape collage to take home.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Celebrate the most important day in the Buddhist calendar and join us for lots of activities.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Workshop
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• School students

Celebrate the most important day in the Buddhist calendar and join us for making, meditation, talks on Buddhism and traditional Buddha Bathing. There will also be a new Gallery trail and introduction to yoga session. Suitable for all the family.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Workshop
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups

Come along to enjoy the Botanic Garden annual Fun Day this Bank Holiday Monday 25 May. There will be a host of FREE, family-friendly activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy, from face-painting to flower arranging, to crafts and Samurai sword demonstrations and discover our Crazy Creatures, all accompanied by live music from Pittington Brass Band. Plus - Our Friends of the Garden will be holding their annual plant sale!

• Outreach & community
• Student experience
• Family friendly

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Be a detective and hunt down some objects that might not be exactly what they seem and make one of your own.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Join us for a family-friendly Korean paper flower making workshop.

• Creative
• Holiday activities
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Workshop
• Children and families
• Everyone

The Museum of Archaeology invites you to create your own coat of arms to display in the new gallery space.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone
• Lifelong Learners and Community groups
• School students
• Teachers / Home Educators
• Young People

The Oriental Museum is full of sculptures. Find you favourite then make a colourful skewer sculpture to take home.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

A youth group for 12-18 year olds to learn practical art skills. This month we will be drawing big! Making large scale drawing inspired by the monumental artwork of Elizabeth Frink and how to make art BIG!

• Creative
• Children and families
• School students
• Teachers / Home Educators
• Young People

Find out about tea in China and decorate a paper tea bowl.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone

Join us at the Oriental Museum on Wednesday mornings for Little Dragons, our FREE session for children under 5 and their families/carers. Each session will be packed full of exploring the museum galleries, fun craft activities, singing, games and stories.

• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Family friendly
• Under 5s

Spot the boats in the museum and make 3D sea sculpture.

• Accessible
• Creative
• Outreach & community
• Family friendly
• Children and families
• Everyone