What’s On Events Calendar
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Student Art Prize 2025/26: EXTRACTION
02 May 2026 - 21 November 2026
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Art Collection
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
Everyday Elegance: Daily Lives of Women in Late Qing China
16 May 2026 - 20 September 2026
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Public debut of the Huang Kam Chak Yee Collection
- Exhibitions
- Everyone
Preserving the Past, Empowering the Future: connecting communities and collections in Bangladesh
26 June 2026 - 20 December 2026
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Oriental Museum
In partnership with University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Varendra Research Museum and University of Rajshahi
- Exhibitions
- Everyone
Family Activities: Perfect Perfume
04 July 2026 - 04 July 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Learn how the Ancient Egyptians kept themselves smelling sweet and make a perfume cone with flower petals.
- Accessible
- Creative
- Outreach & community
- Family friendly
- Children and families
- Everyone
Life Drawing at Palace Green Library
04 July 2026 - 04 July 2026
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Historic Libraries
Hello and welcome to Life Drawing at Palace Green Library! This is an in-person life drawing class that is open to everybody and hosted at Palace Green Library in Durham City.
- Creative
- Alumni
- Everyone
- Friends of Palace Green Library
- Lifelong Learners and Community groups
- Students in HE
- Young People
Art Talk: Shafts of Light
04 July 2026 - 04 July 2026
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Oriental Museum
Join us for a FREE afternoon art talk on Saturday 4 July, 2pm at Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, with Robert McManners OBE, author, art collector and artist.
- Accessible
- Creative
- Lecture
- Outreach & community
- Public
- Alumni
- Everyone
- Friends of the Oriental Museum
- Lifelong Learners and Community groups
- Local and family historians
- Students in HE
- Young People
What’s on across our venues
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Historic Libraries at Palace Green, Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. Whatever your interest, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
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