Discovery Nights - Going Underground
After-hours event for adults with crafting, talks and bar
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Dates
10 October 2025 (historic event)
About
A chilled out evening of hands-on crafts, activities, talks, historical objects and archives, bar and food.
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.
Expect the same slow vibe.. 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.
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 will share the 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.
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