Kirkleatham Museum
Kirkleatham Museum
Kirkleatham
Redcar
North Yorkshire
TS10 5NW
England
Website
www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/museums
museum_services@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
Telephone
01642 479500
Fax
01642 474199
Kirkleatham Museum was opened in 1981. It is located in Kirkleatham Old Hall which was built in 1709 as a 'Free School' by the local Turner family. Nearby are several listed buildings worthy of a visit. We have a new education facility and an excellent cafe. As well as permanent exhibitions we have a regular temporary exhibition programme, highlighting local artistic talent in the 'Little Gallery' and Pavilion.
Venue Type:
Museum
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Land Transport, Natural Sciences, Science and Technology, Social History
Memories of Childhood
- 7 September 2007 — 7 September 2015 *on now
An exhibition spanning five decades of children's games and toys from the 1950's to 2000.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Where
Museum - 1st Floor
Admission
Free admission
Ironstone Mining
- 7 September 2007 — 7 September 2015 *on now
An exhibition providing an insight into the lives of Ironstone Miners, the tools they used and the conditions they worked in. There is also an audio-visual display with a short excerpt from Craig Hornby's A Century In Stone. This exhibtion is also a perfect prelude to the Ironstone Mining Museum in Skinningrove.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Where
Museum - 1st Floor
Admission
Free admission
The Saxon Princess
- 28 May 2011 — 5 September 2016 *on now
A new exhibition which is the culmination of an exciting six year archaeological project at Loftus, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The findings date back to the 7th century and are unparalleled in the Anglo-Saxon world. Some pieces include precious metal jewellery from a Saxon princess, beads and a reconstruction of the Royal bed burial will form part of the exhibition. The exhibition includes a replica Anglo-Saxon house, an audio-visual display and the chance to learn how these people lived their lives.
Suitable for
- Any age
- Family friendly
Where
Museum - Top Floor
Admission
Free
Climb up to the Moor
- 27 September 2014 — 12 April 2015 *on now
A free touring exhibition at Kirkleatham Museum. This exhibition is a unique experience of moorland, with paintings by Judith Bromley & Robert Nicholls. The exhibition includes informative interpretations of the landscape and personal insights by the artists.
The paintings form the main core of the exhibition. The text panels describe the creation of the landscape, the diversity of the upland environment and the importance of its conservation, not least that our peat bogs are more efficient at capturing and storing carbon than the earth's rainforests.
Local artists, craftspeople and makers have been invited each to make a small piece, in their own medium and style, inspired by the moorland floor, to make a group installation: Ground Cover. Schools and other groups have also contributed their creations, adding to this innovative expanding artwork. As the exhibition travels from one venue to another Ground Cover has grown as other artists, makers, groups, children and families have added their own contributions.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
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Street house before the Saxons
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2016 *on now
Dr Sherlock returns to Kirkleatham Museum to unveil more artefacts linked to the highly successful Saxon Princess Exhibition, a stunning showcase of some of the finest Anglo Saxon finds from Northern England.
Archaeological excavations to the north of Loftus between 1979 and 2004 present a wealth of evidence of how people lived in East Cleveland over the last 5,000 years. The results of the excavations are presented in the exhibition Street House before the Saxons and opens its doors to visitors on Saturday 12th July 2014 at Kirkleatham Museum Redcar.
The exhibition shows the varied range of sites, and the finds demonstrate how people were living in this part of North East Yorkshire thousands of years ago. The excavations have found a Neolithic cairn (3000 BC), Bronze Age burial sites, the remains of a timber house and two timber circles that date to around 2000 BC. During the Iron Age (300 BC), families were living in a settlement, growing crops and rearing animals. A Roman villa (AD 370) was found in the next field where people were making jet jewellery and pottery, and trading products around the area. This location became the setting for an Anglo-Saxon village, the home of a Saxon Princess.
This exhibition tells the story of the dig through photographs, two films, archaeological objects and offers the chance for children to find out about Roman life and dress up as a Roman!
Suitable for
- Family friendly
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Ken Charlton
- 15 January — 19 April 2015 *on now
Although drawing featured prominently throughout my teaching career, I did not turn to painting until after retiring in 1995 persuaded by my wife that I would need 'something to occupy my spare time'. After joining my local art society, I initially experimented with a variety of mediums in my painting, but found greatest satisfaction in using watercolours.
Most of my paintings feature landscapes, some form of architecture, or coastal subjects encountered locally and during travels both at home and abroad. While making notes and sketches on location, I commonly take photographs to capture fine details of what can be rapid changes in tone and colour. Time spent in carefully selecting and `framing a particular composition, affords me greater freedom to concentrate later upon my own interpretation of the scene.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
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The Friday Group
- 27 January — 12 April 2015 *on now
We call ourselves The Friday Group and we are 5 friends who all live around Teesside/Cleveland and we meet once a month to share in our hobby of photography.
We each bring along 2 prints for discussion or critique and it makes for an enjoyable evening.
The exhibition is a selection of the work we have produced over the past few years.
We all have different subject matter that we prefer to work with and this has given us a varied exhibition with something for everyone.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
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