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Check out the intricate patterns on the baskets on display and weave your own woollen flower.
01 February 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oriental Museum
Join Student Art Prize Artist in Residency, Sarah Calavera for a talk about her practice and residency.
05 February 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Palace Green Library DH1 3RN
Get ready for the Lunar New Year Lantern Festival and make tissue paper lantern to decorate the museum.
08 February 2025
Everyone is welcome at this spectacular Lunar New Year Lantern Festival.
12 February 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Explore our new exhibition about man who loved cats and make a super cute cat puppet.
15 February 2025
Ever wondered about the huge door at the Oriental Museum? Make your own mysterious 3D doorway...
22 February 2025
Try out our new audio guide and find out about an ancient Egyptian man called Paser. Then create your own Paser clay statue.
26 February 2025
Explore the museum after hours in this alternative museum scavenger hunt with the Art Collection.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Oriental Museum Elvet Hill Durham DH1 3TH
Join Curator of the Korean Collections, Lauren Barnes to learn more about our current temporary exhibition, 'Knitted Together: the Korean lives and legacies of Richard and Joan Rutt'. In this talk, Lauren will share stories of two of the main donors to the Oriental Museum's Korean collection, Richard and Joan Rutt, and give an insight into their fascinating collection and its journey from Daejeon in South Korea, to the Oriental Museum in Durham.
27 February 2025
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Museum of Archaeology Palace Green Library Palace Green Durham DH1 3RN
Be prepared to get messy and make your own monoprint artwork.
28 February 2025
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