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The Next Big Thing are a Barnsley Museums youth group, which welcomes participants with lived experience of mental health, LGBTQ plus young people, young carers and other young people with barriers to education and engagement with the arts and culture.   … Continue reading →

Hello, I am Saba, a Curating Visibility fellow based at Barnsley Museums. I am here to interpret the collections from the lens of disability and neurodiversity, using my lived experience and research interests.  Do you love history and want to find out … Continue reading →

Barnsley Archives and Local Studies have an ongoing conservation programme to ensure that the 4000 collections in our custody can still be safely used by researchers many years, decades and centuries from now. The programme is a crucial part of … Continue reading →

The Shepherdess, a c1849 drawing by Jean-Francois Millet, has recently made its way on loan from the Cooper Gallery to the National Gallery in London to feature in their exhibition Millet: Life on the Land.  Millet is one of the … Continue reading →

Can you believe that it’s been five years since we were singing happy birthday while washing our hands, baking banana bread and watching Tiger King? Five years since the Covid19 pandemic resulted in multiple national lockdowns.  One of our popular … Continue reading →

Heritage Open Days are a great way to access venues that may not normally be open to the public, get behind the scenes or gain free entry to sites that normally charge a fee.  Started in 1994 with 701 participating … Continue reading →

Recently Fusion was delighted to welcome Gillian from BMHT, along with colleagues from Arts Council England and the Audience Agency, to a beastly celebration at Wombwell Park St Primary School to meet the Wee Beasties of Wombwell.   The beasties are … Continue reading →

The Cooper Gallery is delighted to announce an upcoming free exhibition, Barnsley’s Radical Collector: The Sadler Gift from Turner to Bloomsbury, which will be held from Saturday 19 July 2025, until Saturday 3 January 2026.   Barnsley’s Radical Collector: The Sadler … Continue reading →

    Thursday 10 July 2025 saw the exciting opening of a brand-new Visitor Centre at Elsecar Heritage Centre.    The new Visitor Centre is designed to help visitors uncover 250 years of Elsecar’s fascinating history and the compelling stories of the … Continue reading →

Interested in volunteering at a Georgian country house museum surrounded by 70 acres of historic parkland?  Cannon Hall Museum is looking for Visitor Welcome volunteers to help greet visitors, chat to them and answer any questions and gather their feedback. … Continue reading →