West Midlands Thinktank: Birmingham's Science Museum
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West Midlands Thinktank: Space Opera Birmingham's Science Journey to the stars as the planetarium is transformed into an Museum alien spaceship and you are immersed in the music of Holst's Address: Millennium Point The Planets and guided on a scenic voyage littered with Curzon Street cultural references from famous writers, artists and Birmingham philosophers. West Midlands http://www.thinktank.ac/MuseumsAtNight B4 7XG Suitable for: Family friendly 14/05/2011 19:00 -20:30 Eastside Projects Narrative Show: Part 1 Address: 86 Heath Mill Lane Narrative Show uses the length of two exhibitions to Birmingham experiment and develop with real time narrative structures West Midlands and interconnected forms with scripts, performance, film and B9 4AR installation and will include a number of events, workshops, England discussions and screenings. Date and time: 13/05/2011 18:00 - 21:00 Venue: Ikon Gallery Galleries Night: Free art bus links Ikon Address: 1 Oozells Square Gallery, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Brindleyplace RBSA Gallery and mac, Birmingham Birmingham Travel on the free Art Bus and visit Ikon, the Barber Institute West Midlands of Fine Arts, the RBSA Gallery and mac in one night. All three B1 2HS galleries are open late and gallery tours are available. England Date and time: Admission charges: For details of the Art Bus pick up a 13/05/2011 17:00 -21:00 timetable from any of the galleries, check the galleries' websites or call Ikon on 0121 248 0708. Free event. Suitable for: Any age Shrewsbury Museum Event: Nightshift at Shrewsbury Museum & Art and Art Gallery Gallery Address: Rowley's House, Barker Is there a ghost at Rowley’s house? Street Do the Romans wake up when the sun goes down? Shrewsbury Are extinct animals nocturnal? Shropshire How much courage does it take to face an Ichthyosaurus in SY1 1QH the dark?Come and find out when Shrewsbury Museum & Art England Gallery opens its doors at night. Join us when museum objects Date and time: can be identified in the dark, when spooky stories are told by 13/05/2011 17:00 -00:00 ghost hunters and when a night trail takes you around the museum and its ancient objects. Children's activities until 8 pm. Admission charges: Suitable for: Family friendly;Any age Royal Air Force Museum, Open Cockpits Evening Cosford A rare opportunity to access the museum in the evening and Address: Royal Air Force be able to sit in some of the famous aircraft exhibits. Cockpits Museum that will be open on this special museums at night event Cosford include a Jet Provost, Buccaneer and Belfast. Shifnal Shropshire Admission charges: £10.00 per person TF11 8UP Suitable for: Family friendly England Date and time: 14/05/2011 18:30 -20:30 Mill Meece Pumping Nightshift at Mill Meece Station Preservation Experience the warmth of the engine room, the regular beat Trust of the great engines, the slow tick of the flow meters. Can you Address: Mill Meece Pumping stay awake?If not, visit the boiler room and imagine Station shovelling at least a ton of coal into the boilers then raking out Cotes Heath the ash and transporting it to the spoil tip. Near Eccleshall Staffordshire Suitable for: Family friendly ST21 6QU 13/05/2011 18:00-22:00 Newcastle Borough Step into Victorian shops at Borough Museum! Museum & Art Gallery Step into the shops in our Victorian street scene and meet all Address: Brampton Park kinds of costumed characters! Discover the wares of Mellards Newcastle-under-Lyme the ironmongers, the treasures of the pawnbrokers shop, the Staffordshire fascinating cures of the chemists and the gruesome collection ST5 0QP of doctors surgical instruments. England Date and time: Admission charges: 13/05/2011 18:30 -21:30 Suitable for: Family friendly Coughton Court As Darkness Falls at the Court ... (National Trust) Exclusive evening opening at the Court: experience Coughton Address: National Trust in a new light as darkness falls. Step into a candle lit, Coughton Court atmospheric historic house and take a self led journey into the Alcester shadows. Warwickshire B49 5JA Admission charges: £10 Adults, £6 child or £25 family ticket 14/05/2011 Suitable for: Family friendly 15/05/2011 18:00 -21:00 Nuneaton Museum and The ABC of ARP Museums at Night Event! Art Gallery Find out about the civil defence formed on the Home Front Address: Nuneaton Museum and during the Second World War! Discover what it would have Art Gallery been like during the air raids that occurred in Nuneaton. Take Riversley Park part by learning the drills and duties of the Air Raid Coton Road Precautions Wardens, find out how to perform First Aid on Nuneaton wounded civilians and more. Warwickshire CV11 5TU Admission charges: Entrance is FREE for all and no booking is 14/05/2011 18:30 -22:00 required. Just drop in! Suitable for: Family friendly Shakespeare's Late Night Opening at Shakespeare's Birthplace and the Birthplace Shakespeare Centre Watch out for our Shakespeare Aloud actors! Address: Shakespeare's Birthplace and the Shakespeare Centre Suitable for: Any age Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6QW 13/05/2011 17:00 14/05/2011 21:00 Witley Court (English Spotlight talks at Witley Court Heritage) Visit Witley Court at twilight in conjunction with Museums at Address: Great Witley Night, for a unique perspective of the remains of this palatial Worcester 19th century mansion. Worcestershire Free WR6 6JT 14/05/2011 18:30 -21:30 Suitable for: Any age The Commandery Discover the Commandery by candlelight Address: The Commandery Journey through the Commandery's rich layers of history with Sidbury characters from medieval times to the 1950s! Worcester Follow in the footsteps of the building's former residents, meet Worcestershire Commandery characters and join a candlelit guided WR1 2HU Suitable for: Family friendly 14/05/2011 18:00 -21:00 East Midlands Strutt's North Mill, Meet Millworkers at Night at Strutt's North Belper Mill, Belper Address: Derwent Valley Visitor Meet Mr Strutt, 'millworkers' and 'framework knitters' at Centre Strutt's North Mill for story telling, readings and much more Bridgefoot entertainment. Belper Derbyshire Admission charges: Adulta £4 and accompanied children only, DE56 1YD free Suitable for: Family friendly 14/05/2011 18:30 – 21:00 East Midlands Museum of Childhood & Night at the Museum of Childhood Sudbury Hall (National Visit the Museum of Childhood to see what happens after Trust) hours when characters and toys from our collections come to Address: Sudbury Hall life. You might meet Postman Pat, a Storm Trooper, Meg the Sudbury witch and some characters from the Victorian period including Derbyshire a chimney sweep master, a school teacher and many more. DE6 5HT Admission charges: Free for National Trust members 13/05/2011 17:00 – 20:00 Child £4.80; Adult £8.40 for non members Suitable for: Family friendly East Midlands Epworth Old Rectory Epworth Old Rectory Candlelit Tours Address: 1 Rectory Street See Epworth Old Rectory, a beautiful Queen Anne House, by Epworth candlelight. Hear about 18th century family life and the Lincolnshire Wesley brothers John and Charles, who went on to found the DN9 1HX Methodist Movement. 14/05/2011 20:00 – 22:00 Admission charges: £6.50 per person Suitable for: Any age Mr Straw's House, Evening Tour of Mr Straw's House Worksop (National Be guided around Mr Straw's House during this special Trust) evening opening. Address: 7 Blyth Grove Worksop Suitable for: Not suitable for children Nottinghamshire S81 0JG Date and time: 13/05/2011 19:00 =20:30 East Midlands Mrs Smith's Cottage A Cottage Winter Evening in 1931 Museum Electricity did not arrive at the Cottage until 1937. The dark Address: 3 East Road nights were lit by candlelight. Come and see a candlelit life - Navenby storytelling by the glowing fire, rag rug making and the ladies Lincoln, Lincolnshire knitting. Taste some Lincolnshire delicacies.Kids can dress up Lincoln in clothes & play with toys from the period. Lincolnshire LN5 0EP Admission charges: £2.00 per adult. Children under 16 free. 13/05/2011 19:00 – 21.30 Family Friendly 15/05/2011 21:30 East Midlands Sulgrave Manor, near Sulgrave Manor by Candlelight Banbury Candlelight, shadows, creaky staircases and darkened Address: Manor Road corners... see the manor house as it might have looked in Sulgrave times past. Listen to the stories of family life and partake in a nr Banbury little eighteenth century delectation! Stroll around the garden Northamptonshire on an early summer's evening and younger visitors can make OX17 2SD Friday 13th lucky by seeking out the treasures: prizes to be 13/05/2011 18:30 – 22:00 earned! Suitable for: Family friendly North Lincolnshire Spooky family fun night at North Lincolnshire Museum Museum Address: Oswald Road Prepare to step into the spooky museum - but watch out for Scunthorpe the museum's knight, who may follow you around! There will Lincolnshire be free craft activities and a Museums at Night trail to follow, DN15 7BD while the brave and fearless can join our ghost tours, which England will be taking place through the museum between 5pm and Date and time: 7pm. Available to organised groups. 13/05/2011 16:00 13/05/2011 19:00 Admission charges: Free admission. Free tours. Suitable for: Family friendly East of England Fitzwilliam Museum Shadows and Lights Address: Trumpington Street Light and dark. Ancient and modern. Cambridge See ancient artefacts and medieval paintings by candle-glow. Cambridgeshire Hear live music and song around the lawns and galleries at CB2 1RB dusk. Experience light and shade in masterpieces of Italian England Drawing.