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The Cooper Gallery has announced five most popular art works of the Cooper Prize, ‘Peoples’ Choice’ award, as chosen by the public.    The Cooper Prize exhibition launched in March 2021 when the Gallery was closed due to Covid restrictions, … Continue reading →

Elmer the elephant is packing his trunk and will be travelling around Barnsley, spreading joy as he goes, thanks to funding from the Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant. Barnsley Museums have secured £95,000 which will be used to work … Continue reading →

We’ve registered Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust with Easyfundraising, which means over 5,200 shops and sites will now donate to us for FREE every time you use Easyfundraising to shop with them. These donations will help SO MUCH, so please … Continue reading →

Barnsley Museums have been voted highly commended in the Museums and Heritage Awards 2021 in the category, Best Use of Digital. The Museums were delighted to be recognised for their outstanding digital output which they shared with audiences throughout the … Continue reading →

Worsbrough Mill and Country Park has been recently recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in recognition of its importance as a wet woodlands habitat. We are very proud to have helped secure funding from the National Lottery Heritage … Continue reading →

Following our successful exhibition of paintings by Dutch artists, this exhibition brings together works by British artists from the collections at Cannon Hall Museum. Themes of portraiture and landscape pictures by local and national artists ranging from the eighteenth to … Continue reading →

Worsbrough Mill and Country Park is home to the tiny harvest mouse, a priority conservation species. In recent years, an area of reedbeds has been sensitively restored to create a better habitat for this diminutive mammal – weighing only as … Continue reading →

Worsbrough Mill and Country Park needs your help! They want to know what you think about the Mill and Country Park, so they can make exciting plans for the future. Fill in the survey to share your thoughts. https://surveys.barnsley.gov.uk/s/F286J6/ 

Three art installations are coming together at Elsecar in Barnsley to mark the culmination of ambitious three-year art and heritage programme. The Great Place Wentworth & Elsecar programme delivered a range of activities, projects and festivals inspired by Wentworth Woodhouse … Continue reading →