Quiz

Another popular quiz evening to help raise additional funds for the Trust’s work restoring and refurbishing its two historic buildings.

7pm, £2pp

Posted on:26th March 2026

Waterside Memories

Pop in to our Chatty Café and share your childhood memories of Waterside in Barton, and St. Chad’s School.

10.30am – 12.30pm, Free (refreshments on sale)

Posted on:26th March 2026

Crafty Kids

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

11am – 3pm, Free

Posted on:26th March 2026

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

Posted on:26th March 2026

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

Posted on:16th February 2026

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.

Posted on:17th January 2026
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Barton Civic Society Lecture

The Evolution of the Enclosures in Barton

with Andrew Robinson

Joseph Wright Hall (ground floor Raikes Room), 2pm, non-members £4

Posted on:31st December 2025
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Barton Civic Society Lecture

Revolution and Resilience in Lincolnshire – Rex Russell’s Life in Teaching

with Keith Miller

Joseph Wright Hall (ground floor Raikes Room), 2pm, non-members £4

Posted on:31st December 2025
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Barton Civic Society Lecture

Toil & Trouble – Magic in Roman Britain

with Adam Parker

Joseph Wright Hall (ground floor Raikes Room), 7.30pm, non-members £4

Posted on:31st December 2025
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Barton Civic Society Lecture

Behind the Scaffolding – The Story So Far at Baysgarth House

with Liz Bennet

Joseph Wright Hall, (ground floor Raikes Room), 8pm, following the Society’s short AGM, non-members £4

Posted on:31st December 2025