Our next Home Educators’ Day takes place on Tuesday, 13th May 2025. There are a range of bookable workshops and drop-in activities for you to try during your visit.
Bookable Workshops
Workshops are individually priced, accompanying adult admitted to workshop free of charge. Museum admission fee applies. Parental supervision is required throughout the activities.
Suffragettes on the High Street
This workshop immerses young people in the suffrage campaign of 1913. They will take an active role in the suffrage debate, before changing into period costume and taking part in a rally through The 1900s Town.
This session will start at the Masonic Hall in The 1900s Town at 11.00am and 2.00pm. It will be approximately 1hr and 15minutes long. It is £2.50 per child and is suitable for young people over the age of 10 years old. Younger children will not be permitted to participate.
Meet the Georgians
Come on a journey through the Georgian landscape and meet characters from different walks of life to find out about their lives, economics and trading work. Handle objects, listen to stories and ask questions in this session led by Seb Littlewood, Senior Curator of Georgian and Rural Life.
This session will start inside the 1820s Pockerley Waggonway but will require participants to be able to travel along the footpaths through the landscape to different exhibits, ending at Pockerley Old Hall. Please get in touch if you have any questions about accessibility as we will do our best to accommodate if we know in advance. The sessions will start at 10.30am, 12.00pm, 2.00pm and 3.30pm and last an hour. It is £2.50 per child and is suitable for young people over the age of 12. Younger children will not be permitted to participate.
Social History Skills
Find out about the skills needed to research social history topics. Using census information, maps, newspaper articles and photos from the Beamish Museum archive, explore the history and stories of our 1900s Town’s Ravensworth Terrace. This row of houses was originally located in Gateshead but was partially moved to Beamish Museum to preserve them in the 1970s. Join 1900s Town Engager Louise, and Robert Martin, Learning Co-ordinator for this session to develop skills and gather resources needed to research your own local history topic at home.
This session will run from the Bank Board Room, which is located above the bank in The 1900s Town. It will start at 10.30am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm and last approximately one hour. It is £2.50 per child and is suitable for young people over the age of 12. Younger children will not be permitted to participate.
Free drop-in activities
Take part in a number of free activities around the museum (museum admission fee applies).
At times, exhibits may be busy with families participating, so you may wish to pop by again at a different time if it is too busy for you, or speak with a member of staff who can try to accommodate any needs you may have.
Houses and Homes in No. 5 pit cottage in The 1900s Pit Village. Come and learn about life in a pit cottage in the early 1900s and have a go at some of the tasks needed to keep the house clean and warm.
Clippy Mats in the kitchen at the 1940s Farm. Learn about, and have a go at, making a clippy mat in this wonderful activity that reuses scrap fabric. Clippy mats are one category that you can enter for our Horticultural Show.
Drawing Beamish Transport in the 1950s welfare hall. Get inspired by images of Beamish transport and practice your drawing skills to submit an entry into our Horticultural Show in September.
Plant a Sweet Pea at Spain’s Field Farm. Get green fingered and plant your sweet pea seed in preparation for our annual Horticultural Show in September.
Indoor Lunch Space
The lamp cabin in The 1900s Pit Village, and the bowling pavilion in The 1950s Town will be available as indoor lunch spaces from 11.30am-1.30pm.