Crafty Kids

Grab the colours and glue and make something nice to take home for Easter.

11am – 3pm, included as part of £1pp admission

Easter Bunny Hunt

Find the Spring rabbits around the museum to earn a bunny of your own to take home – along with a picture to colour.

£1.50

Lifelong Learning at Barton

Melsonby Hoard

with Simon Tomson

Wednesday 1 July, 1.30pm – 3.30pm

email lifelonglearningatbarton@gmail.com to book and for details

Lifelong Learning at Barton

History of Film

with Phyll Smith

Wednesdays from 20 May – 24 June (6 weeks), 1.30pm – 3.30pm

email lifelonglearningatbarton@gmail.com to book and for details

Lifelong Learning at Barton

Lincolnshire and Hull Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

with Phyll Smith

Wednesday, 13 May, 1.30pm – 3.30pm – email lifelonglearningatbarton@gmail.com to book and for details

Humber Stories – Waterside Childhood Memories

As part of the Humber Museums Partnership’s “Humber Stories” project, our volunteers have embarked on a short project over the Summer to share childhood memories of growing up on Waterside in Barton. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Waterside was an almost self-sufficient, close-knit community with its own shops, chapel, school and industries.

Waterside was described by the late Ron Newton as his “childhood playground”, and we’d like to know more. Our team are particularly keen to share memories of St. Chad’s School – the town’s other National School.

We are appealing for contributors to share their stories of growing up on Waterside, and are especially keen for new volunteers who might like to help with the  project over the Summer – interviewing, transcribing and shaping a new display. 

Our contact details are: wilderspinschoolmuseum@gmail.com or phone (01652) 635172

Travels & Travails

We’re proud to have curated this exhibition previously shown at the Museum last autumn, and on display at the Hull History Centre during March.

It’s a unique story of ambition and endurance; A ‘journey’ which began in Spitalfields, London, in 1825, and ended at Barton upon Humber and Hull twenty years later.

Admission is free: Tuesdays -Thursdays 9.30am – 4.30pm;

Hull History Centre, Worship Street, Hull, HU2 8BG

Swedenborgianism and Samuel Wilderspin

Discover how Samuel Wilderspin’s Swedenborgian faith shaped infant school methods in the early 1800s.

Dr. Sarah Odhner explores these links and why they had to be hidden in the early nineteenth century.

1.30pm – 3.30pm, Admission £4. Pre lecture refreshments & viewing of the Wilderspin Infant School from 12.30pm.

Lifelong Learning at Barton Course

Archaeology Studies

with Simon Tomson

11 March – 29 April, 8 weeks, 1.30pm – 3.30pm – email lifelonglearningatbarton@gmail.com to book and for details

Lifelong Learning at Barton Course

Cartoonery English Attitudes

with Tim Stimson

Wednesdays 14 January – 4 March, 8 weeks, 1.30pm – 3.30pm

email lifelonglearningatbarton@gmail.com to book and for details