Wow - what a great history workshop in Year 3 with Wakefield Museums & Castles exploring life in Roman Castleford (Lagentium) through the handling of artefacts. Thoughtful observations and ideas as historians and archaeologists - well done! 👏👍👏
#growinginwisdom #livingincommunityandservice

All aboard - May's Museum Minis are all about transport! 🚂👶

Travel around the museum on a tiny transport trail.
Enjoy cute crafts all about things that go.
Join Alphabet Cat for a transport themed rhyme time!

📅Every Thursday in term time, 10.30 - 11.30
📍Wakefield Museum

YoureBardUK Everyman Theatre CheltenhamPoetryFest Dr Chris Laoutaris Shakespeare Institute loubeckett Alycia Smith-Howard 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 Maria Thomas Briony Hudson 🎧 Ep 183 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out now & it’s first of 2 Shakespeare specials:

🤩 Joe Hackett of IKProductions talks theatre, You’re Bard + Quick Six

👗 Story of Elizabethan style dress Wakefield Museums & Castles

📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jo-…

💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com

Did you know that #StGeorgesDay is also thought to be Shakespeare's birthday?

We're celebrating two of The Bard's best-loved plays with special outdoor performances:

🌞 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Fri 26 July
💘 Romeo and Juliet - Wed 28 Aug

Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/pontefract-cas…

🎨 Artist Commission: Wakefield Pageant (1933)

Are you an artist passionate about community co-production?

Would you like to create an installation celebrating local heritage?

We want to hear from you!

Deadline: Monday 20 May
Fee: £4000 ex VAT

Info: creativewakefield.net/news/wakefield…

Happy St George's Day!

#StGeorgesDay

Wakefield Council

Today is #EarthDay ! 🌍💚

According to our maths, our site absorbs around 3,239 kg of carbon dioxide every year.

However, did you know that the average UK household releases around 8,100 kg?

Find out what pledges you can make to #DoAWorldOfGood at bit.ly/WM_WorldOfGood

We had the first meeting of our wonderful new Youth Forum on Saturday! 🥳

With lots of exciting projects in the pipeline, we can't wait to see what their first year with us brings.

Wakefield Council ACE North Kids in Museums

📢 Wakefield Museums & Castles are seeking artists to develop a new installation to be displayed in Wakefield One

The piece should be inspired by the Wakefield Pageant which took place in June 1933 in Thornes Park

📅Deadline: Mon 20 May 9am

💷£4000 ex VAT

💻️ tinyurl.com/48e37ems

Take a look at all the amazing activities that have taken place so far for Our Year!

From Zumba to heritage talks and concerts to wheelchair basketball, it's been a fun and exciting few months 🥳

youtube.com/watch?v=cSu2rW…

#OurYear2024 #Wakefield Wakefield Council Experience Wakefield

Let's hear it for the humble spoon! 🥄

Did you know #Castleford is the only known spoon-making centre in the Western Roman Empire?

100s of spoon mould fragments made from local clay like these have been found in Castleford.

#Archaeology #RomanEmpire

Pull the other one - pea pulling, that is!

This photo of women pea pulling in Fryston was taken by Jack Hulme in the 1940s or 1950s.

At our Pit Village Life event, our visitors named two of the ladies in the photo!

Our visitors are such an important source of information ❤️

UNBELIEVABLE Chris Kamara! We are so proud to give you the Freedom of the City for your much loved Shakey Wakey! 🏆

Thank you, Kammy, for your charitable work & support for Wakefield – a city you call home & we think the world of you! 🙌

Have you and your little ones had a good time at one of our sites recently? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

We'd really appreciate your support in nominating us for a Kids in Museums #FamilyFriendlyMuseum award! 🏆

You can nominate us at kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/fam…

Exciting news out of Pompeii!

Digs also revealed lots of oil lamps, similar to this one that was found in Castleford.

This oil lamp of ours dates to 100 - 200 AD, and includes a motif of Jupiter and an eagle with outstretched wings

#Archaeology #AncientRome

✍️ 'Chronicles of Culture' writing workshops (ages 16 to 25)

Calling all budding young writers!

Wakefield Litfest are hosting a series of free, open workshops in May.

Build confidence and develop your skills with professional writers!

Book at ticketsource.co.uk/wakefield-libr…

Have you and your little ones had a good time with us recently? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

We'd really appreciate your support in nominating us for a Kids in Museums #FamilyFriendlyMuseum award! 🏆

You can nominate at kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/fam…

Thank you! We're delighted to be nominated for a Northern Cultural Education award Curious Minds 🥳

More info about the Wakefield: Where we are... project at bit.ly/WFWhereWeAre

Huge congrats to Wakefield Museums & Castles and the young people in Wakefield who have been nominated for their work on the Where we are… project, supported by Youth Association 🙌

Where we are… is a UK-wide programme for young people that co-delivers local arts and cultural projects.