Discovery Nights - Going Underground

Tickets go on sale 1 September

6pm - 9pm

£10 + booking fee. Booking essential. 

For adults 

Discovery Nights are after-hours events for discerning adults offering fresh perspectives on the world around you.

The theme of October’s Discovery Nights: Going Underground is inspired by our region’s mining heritage and highlights folk traditions like proggy mat making, grassroots activism and even ghost stories.

With historical object handling, history talks and a chance to meet one of the region’s most beloved artists Bob Olley, you can stroll through the museum dipping in and out of activities, enjoy the museum at night and kick back. 

With hands-on crafts, activities, talks, historical objects and archives, bar and food.

Featuring

• Poetry workshops with writer Stephanie Lyttle inspired by material from Tyne & Wear Archives 
• Artist Bob Olley will share anecdotes of his time underground as a coal miner in the 20c
• Coal age inspired ghost stories with The Moss Troopers
• Historian Henrietta Heald will give bite-size talks on Charles Parsons and Lord Armstrong
• The Amateur Ancestor, Justine Boussard, as she shares a short story of Story of The Whale and the Steam Engine
• Make your own protest badge 
• Proggy mat making 
• Open bar and food 

Part of the Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution adult event programme.