23 October
6 & 20 November
4 & 18 December
10:30 – 12:00
£3 per session, booking required
Bring your babies and toddlers along to our sensory development sessions led by artist Rachel Elm. Inspired by Aniara Omann’s exhibition Equanipolis, little ones are invited to play with a variety of bright and colourful recycled materials and create their own outfits using pieces made by the artist. Materials provided by Scrapstore.
Tickets are £3 per child. Please book under the child’s name who will be attending. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Image credited to © Chris Pepper
Your challenge is to design a boat for the future. Take a look at some of the amazing models in the Hull Maritime Museum to get some ideas: will your ship transport goods, carry people or catch fish? Once your design is complete, discover how to make an engine which runs on vinegar and baking soda in order to power your boat across our test tanks!
Free, drop-in.
Handle and sketch some of our wonderful shells, or design your own otherworldly creature.
Free, drop-in.
Drop in to the gallery and be inspired by the Holbein the Younger Masterpiece to prepare your own drawing. This session is unsupervised, but materials and inspiration are provided.
Free, drop-in.
Your challenge is to design a boat for the future. Take a look at some of the amazing models in the Hull Maritime Museum to get some ideas: will your ship transport goods, carry people or catch fish? Once your design is complete, discover how to make an engine which runs on vinegar and baking soda in order to power your boat across our test tanks!
Free, drop-in.
Be inspired by the collection of vintage cars at Streetlife Museum to design your own vehicle of the future. Does it need big wheels or small? What powers the engine? Will you design your own time travelling DeLorean?!
Free, drop-in.
We’re inviting you to get hands on with our Medieval collections and discover what life was like for people living in Hull in the past. At this event you can handle real archaeological objects, ask our team questions and imagine what life was like in Medieval times.
Free, drop-in
Discover the stories of the amazing men and women who worked in Hull’s maritime industries. Find out what it was like to be a Hull docker and build a crane to help you unload goods from ships.
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City project.
Free, drop-in
Join us to create a portrait which will be added to a live feed in the studio of all the portraits being made.
Suitable for under 5s and their families.
£1.50 per child, pay on the door.
Before steam, petrol and electric power, people relied on horse power – and many still do, including the Rag and Bone men in our Any Old Rag Bone exhibition! Celebrate the horse with our horse-themed craft session.
Free, drop-in
In the late 1800s Emily Clapham opened a dress-making salon in Hull. She was (and perhaps still is) very well known, and had a reputation for being a fine dress-maker with a very successful business – she even went on to make dresses for royalty! Take inspiration from the Madame Clapham costume collection at the Hands on History Museum before designing and decorating your own fashion drawing.
Free, drop-in
HULL WOMEN’S WEEK 2019
Join us for a celebration of yarn crafting for peace and mindfulness. Drop in and enjoy a day of music, talks and inspiration.
MP Diana Johnson will be joining us at 1:30pm in a talk and question and answer session.
Bring your latest project to work on at Hull Minster.
Free admission.
In this workshop participants will create fantastic pieces of artwork, using general household equipment and printmaking techniques.
The workshop is led by Anne Marie Tickle.
This session will give you the opportunity to create your own sketchbook, using different materials and mixed media techniques. The workshop is led by Diane Chatterton-Hyam.
This technique is the most direct way of creating an original print using a needle on to a metal plate. The marks made create a burr in the metal which gives the print its rich, velvety quality. The workshop is held by Kerry Watson.
Louise Watson is an experienced glass artist that works with both architectural and kiln-formed glass. Learn the techniques of fused glass making, an ideal way to experiment and create your own small project pieces.
You will learn a variety of fusing methods to create pieces such as pendants, decorations and small tiles.
Suitable for beginners and those with some fused glass experience.
