Discovery Nights: Wonder Women

Fri Mar 06 2026 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC+00:00

Discovery Museum | Newcastle Upon Tyne

Discovery Museum
Publisher/HostDiscovery Museum
Discovery Nights: Wonder Women
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Booking essential. £10 + booking fee. Over 18s only.
🌃 Inspired by International Woman’s Day, this after-hours Discovery Nights: Wonder Women event celebrates remarkable women connected to the North East, with an evening of hands-on activities/crafts, live music, historical objects and archives, talks, a bar and food.
🌃 Be the first to see Discovery Museum’s exciting new acquisition, the costume worn by actor Brenda Blethyn as TV’s eponymous Vera, the North East detective created by author Ann Cleeves - who will also join us for a short reading and Q & A.
🌃 A chance to mingle and meet, or chill and stroll through the museum dipping in and out of activities, to enjoy the museum at night and kick back.
Featuring
🔍 Sketch the costume of TV’s Vera, Discovery Museum’s new acquisition and other iconic clothes from author Catherine Cookson and designer Louise Trotter
✍️ An appearance by Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera and Shetland series with a Q & A
📜 Material from Tyne & Wear Archives and object handling

🎶 Live music with Kirsty Hall
🧶 Proggy mat making with Liz from Woodhorn Museum
🥁 Performance by the all women drummers The Bangshees
🍷 🍕 Bar café with pizza and nachos available
🩺 Dr Beverly Prevatt-Goldstein explores the story of Dr Irene Ighodaro
🗜️Historian Henrietta Heald and Laura Brown of Northern Powergrid will give quickfire tributes to women engineers past and present
📕 Bring books for a book swap
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Discovery Museum, Blandford Square,Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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