Barton Open Gardens

Drop in anytime on Saturday between 10am and 5pm to the Wilderspin Playground Garden for a look and some refreshments (until 3pm on Saturday only), and between 1pm and 5pm on Sunday.

School Dinner Memories

Tour the historic school rooms and reflect over tea or coffee in the Chatty Café while reminiscing with family and friends about school dinners.

10am – 3pm        

Museum and Chatty Café admission £1 per person.

Light refreshments can be purchased separately.

Part of Humber Stories – a project supported by The Humber Museums Partnership

Half Term Family Fun

Take advantage of our £1pp School Holiday admission fee for some Half Term family fun. 

Bring your teddy, take them round the Teddy Trail (£1) and sit them in the Teddy Classroom for a school photo to share with us.

1960s Memories 

Tour the historic school rooms and reflect over tea or coffee in the Chatty Café while reminiscing with family and friends about growing up in the 1960s.

10am – 3pm        

Museum and Chatty Café admission £1 per person.

Light refreshments can be purchased separately.

Part of Humber Stories – a project supported by The Humber Museums Partnership

Quiz

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

7pm, £2pp

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)

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

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.