Museum Open Days
Our next open weekend is 4 & 5 February.
The Old School Canteen coffee shop is open as usual every week between 10am and 4pm on Thursday – Sunday inclusive.
Our next open weekend is 4 & 5 February.
The Old School Canteen coffee shop is open as usual every week between 10am and 4pm on Thursday – Sunday inclusive.
To celebrate International Lego Day this weekend why not grab a coffee and dabble with a few bricks and share your own Lego memories in the Chatty Café.
The Old School Canteen coffee shop will reopen on Thursday 5 January.
The Museum is now closed. Open Weekends resume in January on 7 & 8 between 11am – 3pm.
Open Weekends will continue to be the first and third weekends of each month until April.
Make a unique Christmas gift with help from an expert calligrapher in our Chatty Café where you can buy festive refreshments too – from The Old School Cateen.
Bring the family to have a go and find out more about calligraphy – and improve your handwriting on this year’s Christmas gift tags!
Sunday 4 December, 1.30 – 3.30pm Pop in anytime – no need to book
Free – but donations towards costs welcome!
Have a go making something festive in our Chatty Café space next to The Old School Canteen coffee shop where grown-ups can watch and buy refreshments, and even get involved too!
Pop in anytime between 1.30 and 3.30pm – no need to book.
Free – but donations towards costs welcome!
Bring the whole famaily for much-needed Christmas cheer!
Afternoon lecture – Peter Claxton looks back at the forces that shaped public housing in Hull. As the City’s population grew rapidly in the nineteenth century attempts to improve living conditions were controversial. Part of the Barton upon Humber Civic Society lecture programme. Non-members £2
Joseph Wright Hall, 2pm
Refreshments available before the lecture, in The Old School Canteen coffee shop in the Wilderspin School Museum.
Saturday guided tour at 11am and 1.30pm.
The tour lasts one hour with coffee or tea afterwards.
Booking required please (01652) 635172 or email wilderspinschoolmuseum@gmail.com
Free for Annual Ticket holders (£5 others – which includes annual readmission).
For one afternoon only! This Sunday between 12pm and 3pm – in the Chatty Cafe, a sample of dolls house furniture, room boxes and a couple of cmaller houses from a private collection.
Share your happy memories of happy playtimes and meet the collector to swap stories.
The Chatty Cafe is next to The Old School Canteen coffee shop where hot drinks and delicious cakes are on sale to help the conversation flow!
Pop along anytime between 1.30pm – 3.30pm for crafty fun and make something to add to your Halloween decorations.
Thursday 27 October in our Chatty Cafe next to The Old School Canteen where refeshments are on sale.
Free – but donations towards material costs welcome!
Autumn Winter 2022/23 Opening at Wilderspin
Museum Open 11am – 3pm on each date listed.
The Old School Canteen coffee shop is open as usual Thursday – Sunday 10am – 4pm throughout the year.
Saturday 01-Oct
Sunday 02-Oct
Saturday 15-Oct
Sunday 16-Oct
Thursday 27-Oct Half Term
Friday 28-Oct Half Term
Saturday 29-Oct Half Term
Sunday 30-Oct Half Term
Saturday 05-Nov Admission charge £5 per adult commences. Children FREE.
Sunday 06-Nov
Saturday 19-Nov
Sunday 20-Nov
Saturday 26-Nov Barton Christmas Festival (12pm – 4pm)
Saturday 03-Dec
Sunday 04-Dec
Saturday 17-Dec
Sunday 18-Dec
Saturday 07-Jan
Sunday 08-Jan
Saturday 21-Jan
Sunday 22-Jan
Saturday 04-Feb
Sunday 05-Feb
Thursday 16-Feb Half Term
Friday 17-Feb Half Term
Saturday 18-Feb Half Term
Sunday 19-Feb Half Term
Saturday 04-Mar
Sunday 05-Mar
Saturday 18-Mar
Sunday 19-Mar
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
The Wilderspin National School has received help and support from the following organisations:
The Wilderspin National School is an independent museum, registered charity no. 1047187 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 2844791.