The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
Travel back in time and discover the history of the the Potteries, including the world's greatest collection of Staffordshire ceramics.
See Reginald Mitchell's World War 2 Spitfire and all sorts of art and craft.
Enjoy a light lunch or afternoon snack in our relaxing Café Museum and browse in The Foyer Shop for unique quality cards, gifts, books and souvenirs of the Potteries.
The entire collection of this museum is a Designated Collection of national importance.
Venue Type:
Museum
The entire collection of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is a Designated Collection of national importance.
Discover the story of Stoke-on-Trent's people, industry, products and landscapes through displays of pottery, community history, archaeology, geology and wildlife. Explore rich and diverse collections of paintings, drawings, prints, costume and glass.
Collection details
Weapons and War, Toys and Hobbies, Social History, Photography, Personalities, Natural Sciences, Literature, Land Transport, Industry, Fine Art, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archives, Archaeology
Key artists and exhibits
- 20th – 21st Century studio pottery
- Contemporary ceramics
- Minton wares
- Staffordshire Figures
- Printed pottery
- Early 19th century porcelain
- 18th century stonewares
- 18th century lead-glazed wares
- 17th and 18th century slipwares
- Near Eastern and Islamic ceramics
- Italian maiolica
- Contemporary art and craft
- Grayson Perry
- Gavin Turk
- Jacqui Poncelet
- 20th century british painting
- Slade School
- Scottish Colourists
- British Surrealists
- Conroy Maddox
- Eileen Agar
- War Artists’ Advisory Committee
- Prints
- Nineteenth century French prints
- Eduard Manet
- Toulouse Lautrec
- Degas
- Nineteenth century Japanese woodcuts
- Henry Moore
- Laura Knight
- designers
- Grete Marks
- Gordon Forsyth
- Contemporary artists
- Terry Shave
- Stephen Boyd
- David Jones
- John Constable
- Watercolours
- drawings
- JMW Turner
- Samuel Palmer
- Francis Towne
- Louis Solon drawings
- Sir Charles Barry
- busts
- Jacob Epstein
- Rodin
- lace
- dolls
- jewellery
- Wendy Ramshaw
- Zandra Rhodes
- Glass
- silver
- cowcreamers
- Furniture
- Japanese jade
- ivory
- Japanese woodcuts.
- Spitfire mark XVI
- R.J. Mitchell
- Photographic collection
- glass plates
- negatives
- transperencies
- 20th century community history
- Arnold Bennett
- papers
- diaries
- Transport memorabilia
- postcards
- tickets
- Oliver Lodge
- Igniter
- Industrial history
- machinery
- tools
- Post-medieval ceramics
- Roman
- Lightwood Hoard
- Iron age
- gold torcs
- gold
- Saxon pottery
- Bronze age
- sword
- medieval
- pre-history
- gold bracelet
- roman silver
- roman coins
- coins
- natural history
- Botanical collections
- plants
- fungi
- Charles Darwin
- geology
- rocks
- minerals
- fossils
- Zoology
- animals
- beetles
- bird eggs
- butterflies
- moths
- snails
- Environmental recording
- Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
- Wedgwood
- Spode
- Mintons
- Royal Doulton
- Designated Collection
- The Staffordshire Hoard
- Saxon
- Tudor
- Stuart
- Prehistoric
- Anglo-Saxon
- Gold
Staffordshire Hoard: Dark Age Discovery
This dazzling exhibition featuring over two hundred specially chosen artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard is a unique opportunity to find out about this world famous discovery.
Learn about the Hoard and the world of the Anglo-Saxons. Follow the story of the Hoard from the day it was unearthed and see some of the fascinating techniques experts have used to find out more about it.
Explore the meaning of the Hoard and the symbols which decorate it. See how fragments of the Hoard have been reconstructed and brought to life through replicas and interactives.
Suitable for
- Any age
Where
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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A Day in the Life of an Anglo-Saxon
The majority of items found in the Staffordshire Hoard are military in nature, probably taken from great warriors after defeat in battle. To celebrate the current Dark Age Discovery exhibition we invite you to see what life was like for everyday people aware from the battlefields.
Join the Anglcynn living history society as they demonstrate a day in the life of Eadwulfingham, the home of the people of Eadwulf. See a reconstruction of life in an Anglo Saxon village around 650AD, with the villagers demonstrating daily activities, working in wood, textile production, craftwork, music and storytelling.
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10:30am-4pm
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Become a Warlord
Do you have what it takes to become a Warlord and lead a band of warriors into battle? Take part in this SAGA wargames tournament. Using beautifully painted figures, dice, cunning and a little bit of luck, battle begins. Vikings fight Anglo-Saxons, with the games aimed at novices of all ages.
Experts will be on hand to teach the rules and give strategic tips. Children and adults will also have the opportunity to paint an Anglo-Saxon figure, take it away and give it pride of place on the mantelpiece (limited numbers).
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10:30am-4pm
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Tea, Temperance and a Tipple
Meet the frightfully proper members of the Temperance Society as they dust down your decorum and straighten your backbone. These passionate campaigners have pledges to be signed, tracts to be read and advise on etiquette and deportment. But how will they deal with the local innkeeper?
Meet the local innkeeper who samples too much of his own stock of beer and spirits. Be entertained with his bawdy sing songs of the era and 19th century silly tales behind his Victorian bar. It appears that not everyone has been influenced by the new Victorian values!
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10:30am-4pm
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