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We are delighted to announce that Barnsley Museums has been shortlisted twice for the Family Friendly Museum Award 2025!   This includes shortlisting for:   ·                     Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park for Best Accessible Museum   ·                     Experience Barnsley Museum and Discovery … Continue reading →

This summer, from 22 July to 1 September 2025, Barnsley Museums is full of fun activities for families. Across five museum sites, you’ll find exciting trails, creative workshops, and sensory sessions perfect for kids of all ages.   At Worsbrough Mill, … Continue reading →

Experience Barnsley are delighted to showcase artworks created by Patricia Wroe and Peter Hardy on a new community focused gallery wall in the museum.   The team at Deangate Care Home in Mapplewell contacted the museum after discovering the artistic talents … 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 Grasslands Project was inspired by THE HERDS (www.theherds.org), a groundbreaking public art and climate initiative brought to life by the team behind Little Amal. Lifesize puppets of animals journeyed through cities on a 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin … Continue reading →

Barnsley Libraries and Barnsley Museums have recently been recognised as places of sanctuary and were presented with the Libraries of Sanctuary and Museum of Sanctuary awards. These awards are a fantastic achievement for their teams and recognise the support  offered … Continue reading →

Barnsley Museums is thrilled to announce a historic achievement, welcoming two million visitors in 2024-25. This is the first time, in the council’s records, that the Museums service has reached this number in a year. It beats last year’s 1.9 … Continue reading →

What do Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, French President Emile Loubet and Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo all have in common?  The answer is that they all get a mention in the brand-new catalogue of the historic records … Continue reading →

Dearne e-gaming tournament  Fusion is leading the Dearne Youth Legacy Project, building on the success of Heart of the Wood and Storying Goldthorpe (https://www.barnsley-museums.com/projects/storying-barnsley/heart-of-the-wood). The project is using research and testing through pilot engagement activity to develop and consolidate thinking … Continue reading →

Looking to get creative?  Every Wednesday in June, from 10am until 12pm, in the Sadler Room at the Cooper Gallery, you can make your own masterpiece with artists Sally Philburn and Julia Woodhall.  Create different types of artwork in a … Continue reading →