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*NEW* AFTER-HOURS EVENT FOR ADULTS Discovery Nights: The Good Life, Friday 22 November 6-9PM. £8
In the first ever *Discovery Nights* you can embrace the ideas of slow living and sustainable practice - while having fun, shopping, drinking and getting to go 'behind the scenes' at the museum!
In the first ever Discovery Nights event The Good Life, adults can enjoy the museum after-hours and embrace the vibe of sustainable living.
Take an expert led tour of the museum’s costume stores; learn about foraging; experience storytelling sharing the rich history of cotton and swap clothes, create your own cosmetics, shop with local sustainable makers; try mindful crafting, and so much more.
With music, bar and food, too. You can:
✨ Discover✨
👠 Costume store tour – behind-the-scenes with curator Helen
🩹 Get up close to ‘Make Do and Mend’ material from Tyne & Wear Archives
🧵 Join Justine Boussard the ‘Amateur Ancestor’s exploration of the history of cotton through one of the museum's historic dresses
🌿 Meet the The Cramlington Forager for an introduction to foraging
🌬️ Meet an experienced engineer on hand in the Steam to Green exhibition to answer any questions
🍓 BerryCell – demos of solar energy involving interactive experiments with fruit-based solar cells
😊 Try 😊
🍃 Goodness Gracious Green Ltd - make your own natural facial oil
🪡 Blissful Remakes – how to repair and repurpose your wardrobe
👗 Swap Shop and Restyling with Making The Space styling
✂️ Nature Makers - North of Tyne - mindful crafting with clay and quilled paper
Browse or buy with our local purveyors of beautiful things
Adorn Jewellery | Askews Candles | Delightfully Denim | For the Love of the North | Hanging by a Fred | HippyHikers | Spinning Superiority Record Shop | Tangent Photographic | saėėda | Vintage Revival
About: Part of the Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution adult event programme. Steam to Green was created in partnership with Newcastle University. Headline sponsor is Vattenfall; sponsored Lumo Travel, Tyne and Wear Metro and Northumbrian Water. Supported by The Faraday Institute, The Reece Foundation, The Headley Trust Friends of Discovery Museum and Art Fund UK.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Discovery Museum, Blandford Square,Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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