Making: Get hands-on with heritage

Showing a parent and child from behind sitting at a table doing clay crafts.

Staying true to one of the museum's earliest visions, embrace not only buildings and other artefacts but also the skills that went into producing them and ways of living over a century ago.

Get hands-on making heritage crafts and artisanal things at our museum.

Events

A selection of materials and natural dyes

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Natural Dye Workshop

Saturday 12th August

A workshop exploring the world of natural dyes.

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Festival of Making

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th August

A two-day event celebrating traditional crafts and heritage skills.

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Bags of Style

Saturday 26th August

Join our textile curator, Valerie Wilson, for this one day practical sewing workshop.

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Glass jars some with gold lids, others with red lids, with handwritten labels for cordial flavours.

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Cordial Making Workshop

Saturday 16th September

Join our expert visitor guide, Claire at the Folk Museum, to learn how to make your own cordials in this three-hour workshop.

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Meet our Makers

Our talented team of demonstrators, visitor guides and first-person interpreters are here to take you on a journey to discover the past and how it connects to our present. Every day you'll be able to witness a selection of our talented demonstrators at work, keeping these traditional heritage skills alive for the next generation.