What can we do in the rain?

Don't stay home just because the weather is dreadful! There's plenty happening to keep you busy, despite the rain.

We have both bookable and drop-in activities for families:

Sherlock Bones
Wednesday 28th May
Wakefield Museum and Learning Zone
Suitable for ages 6 -11
11am - 12:30pm and 1:30pm - 3pm
This is your chance to be an archaeologist and a detective all at once! You can tell all sorts of things about someone from their skeleton. We’ve got some life-size (replica) skeletons for you to investigate to find out how their owners lived and what they ate!
Free but booking essential on 01924 302700 or email

Mosaics Madness
Thursday 29th May
Castleford Forum Museum
Suitable for ages 4 -12
11am -2pm
Taking inspiration from Roman designs arrange your own paper tesserae to create some mad
Mosaics.
Free drop-in. No need to book.

Time for Tea
Friday 30th May
Wakefield Museum and Learning Zone
Suitable for ages 2 – 5
10:15am – 11:30am and 1:30pm – 2:45pm
Can you paint with tea and coffee? What animal is hiding in the cup? Come and find out the answers in this hands on workshop.
Free but booking essential on 01924 302700 or email

For more family events see the Museums Learning site!

Not only that, but it is ArtWalk night tonight!

There is lots happening all over Wakefield tonight, and the museum is hosting a number of very special events:

NEED FOR SPEED: THE VICTORIAN LADY CYCLIST

SEE AT: WAKEFIELD MUSEUM & LIBRARY

Experience freedom as you cast off your chaperone, sit astride your steed and embrace the new thrilling craze of the bicycle. This lively talk embraces the lives and clothes of the emancipated, cycling women of Victorian England, including the daring few who donned the shocking Bloomer Suit! This event is free but booking is essential, please call 01924 302700.

Event Times

6.00PM - 7.30PM

YORKSHIRE GRAND DEPART CELEBRATIONS

A RANGE OF CYCLING THEMED DISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES

SEE AT: WAKEFIELD MUSEUM & LIBRARY

To celebrate the Yorkshire Grand Depart Wakefield Museum is wheely pushing the bikes out! See a penny-farthing and a bicycle used by cycling legend Barry Hoban to win a stage of the Tour De France. These spectacular displays celebrate cycling in Wakefield! As well as these displays there will be various activties on At Wakefield One & Wakefield Museum & Library: 

Outside performances (weather permitting!) from Co-Active

Wire bike sculptures in Create Cafe by Faceless Arts

Wakefield Djembe Circle performing in the museum. 

Drop in anytime between 5.00 and 7.30 to catch one of the events.

Event Times

5.00PM - 7.30PM