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Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust is the charity that supports Barnsley Museums, an innovative and successful museums service that runs five free heritage sites across the borough. The Trust has launched a campaign to recruit new trustees who can offer … Continue reading →

Early this summer, a major project will begin to improve our wonderful heritage attraction at Elsecar, conserving buildings and creating new spaces for people to enjoy. Through the project, new creative studios in unused historic spaces, new museum galleries co-curated … Continue reading →

Earlier this year Barnsley Archives and Local Studies’ staff went to the Magistrates’ Court on Westgate to help with the transfer of a large batch of the court’s non-current registers. Magistrates’ courts are one of a number of public bodies … Continue reading →

Making sure the stones keep turning in a 400-year-old flour mill might sound to some people like a fantastic way to escape the pressures of the 21st Century. But for ex-teacher Simon Dodd it is a reality, and often hard … Continue reading →

Since 2022 local artist, Louise Ann Wright, has been growing and foraging colour within the landscape of Cannon Hall Museum Park and Gardens to create pigments for use in watercolour and ink. Inspired many years ago by Victorian artist Able … Continue reading →

Wentworth Castle Gardens is home to a dedicated team of volunteers who have been researching the archives there. They will be sharing the riches of the archives with visitors on a number of Open Archive days this year, the first … Continue reading →

In our Easter edition we’re delighted to share with you everything happening around Barnsley and at Barnsley Museum sites this month. Find out about all the latest exhibitions, news and events happening throughout March & April that you, your family & friends … Continue reading →