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The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum

The Staffordshire Hoard Helmet

Ongoing

Over 1,000 fragments of the Staffordshire Hoard came from a single, ornate helmet. Discover a stunning reproduction on display next to the Hoard – the result of an 18-month long research project involving craftspeople, conservators, archaeologists and art historians, supported by the museum, Birmingham Museums Trust and Historic England. Ongoing The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

January - April 2019 Gladstone admission The Potteries Gladstone Adults: £7.75 Children: £5.40 (4 ‐ 16 years inclusive) Museum & Concessions: £6.20 Pottery Family Ticket: £23 (2 adults, 2 children)

Art Gallery Annual Passes entitle the user Museum to free entry for 12 months Adult ‐ £11.50 Children/Concessions £9.50

Bethesda Street, City Centre, Stoke‐on‐Trent ST1 3DW Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke‐on‐Trent ST3 1PQ @PotteriesMuseum @GladstoneMuseum Telephone: 01782 232323 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01782 237777 Email: [email protected]

Discover the history of The Potteries including Gladstone is the only complete Victorian pottery factory Our opening times are the world's greatest collection of Staffordshire FREE Entry from the days when coal burning ovens made the world’s Tuesdays ‐ Saturdays ceramics, decorative arts and natural history. Donations finest bone china. Traditional skills, original workshops, and Bank Holidays See items from the Staffordshire Hoard and visit Welcome the cobbled yard and huge bottle ovens transport visitors the museum café and shop. October ‐ March: back in time. Visit the gift shop and tea room and have a Open: 10am ‐ 4pm. go at throwing a pot, making a china flower or decorating For further details of any of the events listed Monday ‐ Saturday 10am ‐ 5pm Tea room: please follow our social media sites or visit pottery. Please allow two to three hours for your visit. Sunday 11am ‐ 4pm The shop and tea room, which serves a selection of drinks 11am ‐ 3:30pm www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag and light lunches, are open to non‐museum visitors. April ‐ September: 10am ‐ 5pm. For full details about all of our events please see www.stokemuseums.org.uk/gpm Tea room:

or follow our social media sites. 11am ‐ 4pm Gladstone Pottery Museum The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Tuesdays ‐ Saturdays Every day

Rainbow Trail Number Trail

Follow the clues to find different Help Ozzy Owl learn to count to 12 by coloured items, each one will have a finding different numbers of objects in letter which you can use to spell a the museum. £1 per trail and includes a January word. Free gift and entry into a prize free pencil. Ongoing draw. £1+ admission.

Golden Goose Trail Chinese Zodiac Trail activities Solve the clues and find the golden It is the year of the Pig. Help Ozzy find 12 geese which are hiding all around the animals from the Chinese Zodiac. £1 per

Have-a-go Activities February museum. Free gift and entry into a trail and includes a free pencil. Tuesday ‐ Saturday and Bank Holidays prize draw. £1+ admission.

Gladstone Pottery Museum Clarice Cliff Trail Nursery Rhyme Trail At Gladstone you can try your hand at pottery skills and create your own masterpiece to take home as a unique souvenir of your visit to the museum. Can you find the art deco plates hiding Help Ozzy Owl find 12 items that appear From £1 plus admission. around our site? Free pencil and entry in popular nursery rhymes. £1 per trail March into a prize draw for everyone who and includes a free pencil. takes part. £1+ admission. Demonstrations of Pottery Skills Tuesdays ‐ Saturdays and Bank Holidays Gladstone Pottery Museum Easter Trail Animal Trail

Skilled professionals demonstrate pottery skills daily. Get cracking, solve the clues and hunt Help Ozzy Owl find 12 animals that

Included with admission. April down the Easter tiles hiding around remind you of the popular Beatrix the museum. Free gift and entry into Potter characters. £1 per trail and a prize draw. £1+ admission. includes a free pencil. Toddler Thursday ‐ Fun for the Under 5s

Gladstone Pottery Museum Messy Museum Learn, play and explore in our sessions especially for The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery under 5’s and their parents or carers. £1 per child but normal admission applies if you wish to visit the rest A messy midweek session for pre‐school children. £3 per child. of the museum. Booking essential ‐ please call 01782 10.30am ‐ 12pm These monthly sensory sessions will take place, 237777. One adult per participating child. 10.30 ‐ 11.30am. when possible, outside in our Secret Garden so please dress for the weather. Each session is based on a different theme. Booking Thursday 17 January Thursday 14 February essential ‐ call 01782 232323. One adult per participating child.

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Ongoing activities • The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum Displays

Exhibitions A Winter Wonderland Until Sunday 24 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Winter has provided inspiration for North Staffordshire potters for centuries. From Visions in Stone: Gilbert Ledward Wedgwood’s ‘Winter’ jasper candlestick, modelled by William Hackwood, to Spode’s iconic ‘Christmas Tree’ design. A Winter Wonderland is a display of ceramics which shape, decoration and design has been inspired by winter and all that we associate with it. RA ‐ sculpture and drawings Until Sunday 31 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery The Collection of Ted Watkin As part of the 250th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Academy, Visions in Stone explores Friday 25 January ‐ Monday 1 July The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery the work of the sculptor, Gilbert Ledward RA (1888‐1960). The works on display include Ledward’s sculpture in stone and bronze, as well as the sculptor’s drawings and design Ted Watkin was an active member and Chairman of both the North portfolios from the museum’s own collections. Tickets £5, Concessions £3, under 16 free. Staffordshire Group of the Geologists’ Association and the North Stafford‐ shire Field Club. His vast collecting interests included minerals and fossils. This display shows a small selection of highlights from his collection which Seasons was kindly donated to The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Until Sunday 24 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Crown Staffordshire This exhibition by Staffordshire Artists references the four Saturday 2 March ‐ Sunday 12 May The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery season of the year and showcases work produced by the group within the last two years. A selection of pieces from the Charles Green collection of Crown Staffordshire bone china, famous for its tableware, ceramic flowers and figures.

Apollo 50: Commemorating the Animals in Literature 50th anniversary of the First manned Saturday 30 March ‐ Sunday 2 June The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Lunar Landing Featuring animals from our Natural Science Collection, this display showcases some Saturday 23 March ‐ Sunday 3 November of the wildlife which inspired the stories written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

A special exhibition featuring 50 models, memorabilia

and multi‐media which tell the epic story of the Apollo The Staffordshire Hoard Helmet programme in context with the history of rocketry. A Ongoing The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

fabulous display of rockets tracing the history of rocketry Over 1,000 fragments of the Staffordshire Hoard came from a single, ornate helmet. Discover a from Congrieve’s military rockets to Elon Musk’s Falcon stunning reproduction on display next to the Hoard – the result of an 18‐month long research heavy will be on show, along with models of spacecraft project involving craftspeople, conservators, archaeologists and art historians, supported by the from fiction. museum, Birmingham Museums Trust and Historic England.

Exhibitions and displays • The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum The Language of the Fan throughout Sunday 3 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery January and

January & Join History's Maid to hear how the February Georgians communicated through a secret code using their fans! Also how Friday Twilight ‐ A

they loved tea so much that it rapidly £10 Pandemonium of Poe February Friday 18 January became Britain's favourite drink! Please book in advance, tickets £15 which Historic Longton Talk

includes Afternoon Tea. 1pm FREE Saturday 19 January Friday Twilight - A Pandemonium of Poe The Tale of the Toilet ‐ Archive Films FREE Friday 18 January The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Saturday 26 January

An original theatrical anthology of a selection of Poe's finest feats of fear‐filled Valentines Bone China Flower fiction with Don’t go into the Cellar theatre group. Be led by the sinister

£12 Making Workshop Dr Trevellyan as he leads you into the deepest recesses of the human psyche. Saturday 2 February Performance 7.30 – 9.30pm, please call 01782 232323 to book, tickets £10. Bar opens at 6pm serving a range of cocktails. The Language of the Fan £15 Sunday 3 February Historic Longton Talk Chinese New Year of the Pig FREE Sunday 10 February Saturday 19 January Gladstone Pottery Museum Craft Activity‐Clay Pig Tiles

Learn about the past of the town of Longton with local historian Phil Rowley. The current buildings £1.50 Chinese New Year of the Pig Sunday 10 February tell the industrial tale of the development of the area and the important role it played in the pottery Sunday 10 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Friday Twilight ‐ industry. 2pm. This event is free, please call 01782 237777 to book a place. Murder at Faulty Towers!

Welcome in the Chinese New Year of the Pig at the museum £27.50 with traditional music and dance including Dragon and Friday 15 February The Tale of the Toilet ‐ Archive Films Lion and Unicorn dance performances. Other activities Anglo ‐ Saxon Clothing Saturday 26 January Gladstone Pottery Museum include Chinese craft workshops, firecrackers, acrobatics and Status and much more. Free, 11am ‐ 5pm. FREE On the eve of International Thomas Crapper Day, Gladstone Pot‐ Monday 18 February tery Museum hosts a special film show presented by Potteries born Terry Woolliscroft who asks the question "What makes a Craft Activity‐ Friday Twilight ‐ Murder at Faulty Towers! good toilet?" Using films, both ancient and modern, Terry will explore recorded images and sounds Clay Anglo‐Saxon Pots Friday 15 FebruaryThe Potteries Museum & Art Gallery £1.50 of the manufacture of these massive pieces used in bathrooms worldwide. "Actually" says Terry, Monday 18 ‐ Thursday 22 February "making a toilet is just like making a teapot, it's just that it's so much bigger!".Free (normal admission It’s the Major’s Murder Mystery party for his 80th birthday applies to the rest of the museum), To book please call 01782 237777, 2pm. and Basil and Sybil are throwing a party for residents and Mosaic Rabbit past guests. Manuel discovers a body in room 7. Who is it? Monday 18 ‐ Thursday 22 FREE Valentines Bone China Flower Making Workshop Why room 7? Come and join us in Torquay (well ‐ Hanley ) February for a laughter filled night of murder and mayhem. Tickets Saturday 2 February Gladstone Pottery Museum £27.50 and includes three course dinner, coffee and glass of Half Term Pottery Painting Learn how to make rosebuds and hearts in time for Valentine’s Day with our expert flowermaker. wine or juice on arrival. Please book in advance by calling Tuesday 19 ‐ Saturday 23 01782 232323. 7 ‐ 10pm. February 11am, £12 ‐ includes museum admission. Please call 01782 237777 to book. from £1+ admission Half Term Craft Activity – Clay Heraldic Shields Events January & February • The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum Tuesday 19 February £1+ admission

Anglo ‐ Saxon Clothing and Status Fairy Tales and Fables Fun Day throughout Monday 18 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Friday 22 February Gladstone Pottery Museum January and To celebrate our Staffordshire Hoard treasures discover how clothing and military Watch fairy tale themed magic shows at 11am, 1 and 2.30pm equipment reflected an individual’s social status during the Anglo‐Saxon period and and join our facepainter and balloon modeller 11am ‐ 3pm. In‐ February how even in death clothing and bling showed position. Children can also take part in cluded with museum admission. some ‘spear drills’ and gain an insight into the life of a warrior. Free, 11am ‐ 4pm. Anglo ‐ Saxon Clothing and Status FREE Craft Activity‐ Mosaic Rabbit Moorcroft: A Living Art Monday 18 February

Monday 18 ‐ Thursday 22 February Clay Anglo‐Saxon Pots Pottery 1897‐1997 Craft Activity‐ The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Saturday 23 February Monday 18 ‐ Thursday 22 February Clay Anglo‐Saxon Pots

Gladstone Pottery Museum £1.50 The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Decorate our giant rabbit 3D frame Monday 18 ‐ Thursday 22

ready to go on into our Animals in Join author and ceramic historian Kathy February Create your own Anglo Saxon Pot from clay, inspired by Literature display. Drop in Niblett to find out more about this our collection and decorate it with the Runic Alphabet Mosaic Rabbit 10.30am‐12.30pm and 1.15pm‐3pm. famous Staffordshire pottery in an Drop in 10.30am‐12.30pm and 1.15pm‐3pm, £1.50. Monday 18 ‐ Thursday 22 illustrated talk. The story of Moorcroft is FREE February thrilling – success and disappointment in Half Term Pottery equal measure. The successful company that we have today Half Term Pottery Painting comes after an enormous disappointment. 11am, this event Tuesday 19 ‐ Saturday 23 Painting is free and normal admission charges apply to the rest of the February Tuesday 19 ‐ Saturday 23 museum. To book a place please call us on 01782 237777. from £1+ admission February Half Term Craft Activity ‐ Gladstone Pottery Museum Clay Heraldic Shields

£1+ admission Tuesday 19 February Paint a piece of pottery to take home as a unique souvenir of Half Term Craft Activity ‐ your visit to Gladstone, from £1 Crown Making

plus admission. Choose from Admission Wednesday 20 February mini bottle ovens, animals, Half Term Craft Activity flowers, specially themed fairy Half Term Storytelling ‐ Fairy tale and fable items. ‐ Clay Heraldic Shields Wellington’s Soldiers Tales and Fables

Tuesday 19 February Saturday 23 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Admission Wednesday 20 February Gladstone Pottery Museum Half Term Craft Activity ‐ Crown Making Meet riflemen of the 5th battalion of the 60th Regiment who Half Term Craft Activity ‐ Peg Get creative with clay and make Wednesday 20 February Gladstone Pottery Museum fought under the Duke of Wellington during the Napoleonic Princes and Princesses your own heraldic shield plaque Wars. Hear of their involvement in the Peninsular War, discover Admission Thursday 21 February Make and decorate your own crown fit for a fairy tale inspired by the tiles in our Tile what rations the men were issued on a daily basis and see a king or queen in our drop in craft workshop. 11am ‐ 3pm, Gallery. 11am ‐ 12.30pm and display of uniform’s and accoutrements they would carry. Fairy Tales and Fables Fun Day

1.15 ‐ 3pm, £1 plus admission. Admission included with admission. Free, 11am. Friday 22 February

Moorcroft: A Living Art Pottery 1897‐1997 Half Term Craft Activity ‐ Peg Princes and Princesses Craft Activity‐Peg Soldiers FREE Saturday 23 February Thursday 21 February Gladstone Pottery Museum Saturday 23 February The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Wellington’s Soldiers Take part in our Fairy Tale and Fable themed drop‐in craft workshop and make your own peg Make a peg soldier using felt, cloth and a traditional wooden FREE Saturday 23 February prince or princess to take home with you. 11am ‐ 3pm, included with admission. peg. Drop in 11am‐3pm, £1.50. Craft Activity‐Peg Soldiers

£1.50 Saturday 23 February

Events January & February • The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum Superhero Saturday and throughout Superhero Masks Saturday 23 March March Gladstone Pottery Museum Psychology in the Museum FREE Saturday 2 March March Free admission to the museum for every visitor dressed as a superhero! You can Longton’s Last Bottle Ovens

also join our storyteller and hear superhero FREE Saturday 9 March Longton’s Last Bottle Ovens tales 11am ‐ 1pm and 1.30 ‐ 3pm. Join our drop‐in craft workshop and make your Fairy‐tale Afternoon Tea

Saturday 9 March Gladstone Pottery Museum £8-10 own superhero or super‐villain mask Sunday 10 March Join us for a talk lasting approximately an hour to look at most 11am ‐ 3pm. All included with admission. Mother’s Day Shopping of the remaining bottle‐ovens in Longton, as well as a number of Thursday 14, Friday 15 other interesting buildings. 2pm. This event is free, please call Wildlife Superheroes and Saturday 16 March 01782 237777 to book a place. Saturday 23 March Gladstone Pottery Museum

Psychology in the Museum Can you become a wildlife superhero? Find out Saturday 2 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery about the super skills of some of our local wild Save 15% when you spend £5 animals from the Staffordshire Wildlife Trusts Non-museum visitors welcome or more in the shop. Come and explore free hands‐on activities for all ages including making a team. 11am ‐ 3pm, included in admission. brain hat, discovering the tricks our eyes play on us and finding out about Little Bo Peep the psychology of emotions. 11am‐3pm. Friday Twilight ‐ Divorced, FREE Saturday 16 March

Fairy‐tale Afternoon Tea Behead, Died: An Audience Craft Activity‐ Clay Nursey Rhyme Tile Sunday 10 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery with King Henry VIII £1.50 Saturday 16 March Enjoy a delicious homemade Afternoon Tea in the company of our fairy‐tale Friday 29 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery princesses including Snow White and Cinderella. Come along in your favourite Chariots of Fire ‐

glamorous dress to impress our enchanted guests of honour. Book in advance Enjoy an audience with Henry VIII as he travels the realm. £5 The History of Rocketry by calling 01782 232323.Children £8, adults £10. Servings at 12 and 2.30pm. His Majesty will recount the events of his long reign; telling Saturday 23 March of his wives and his children and invite his guests to question Superhero Saturday Little Bo Peep him on ANY related subject: there may be some surprising

Admission Saturday 23 March Saturday 16 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery answers ‐ a lively Q&A is assured!’ 7 ‐ 9pm. Call 01782 232323 to book, tickets £10. Superhero Masks Meet Little Bo Peep and help her find her reluctant friend, Ewenice the

Admission Saturday 23 March larger than life sheep. Also see a range of Spring animals with our Farm on Wheels and have a go at feeding one of the baby lambs. Free, 11am ‐ 4pm. Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea Wildlife Superheroes Sunday 31 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Admission Saturday 23 March

Chariots of Fire ‐ The History of Rocketry Treat your loved ones to a delicious Afternoon Tea at the Friday Twilight ‐ Divorced, Saturday 23 March The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery museum this Mother’s Day. Enjoy an assortment of finger Behead, Died: An Audience sandwiches and range of homemade cakes in our café with £10 with King Henry VIII To celebrate the opening of the Apollo 50 exhibition this talk by Andrew Lound our resident pianist. Price includes a pink rosebud for every Friday 29 March illustrates a history of the rocket expressing the ups and downs of development mother. Please book in advance by calling 01782 232323, using rare images, video and audio. A story that will surprise many as the ‘what serving at 1.30pm, tickets £9.50 or £15 with a small bottle of Coiled Pot Making Workshop might have beens’ are explored. Talk at 2pm, tickets £5, Call 01782 232323 to book. Prosecco. £12 Saturday 30 March

Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea • The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum Events March £9.50-15 Sunday 31 March

Raku Pottery Workshop throughout Saturday 13 April Gladstone Pottery Museum April Raku is a Japanese pottery firing process and in our hands‐on sessions you can glaze and fire your own pot Friday Twilight ‐ Captain under the supervision of ceramicist Tez Roberts. Stingrays Groove Machine April FREE Experience the excitement of an outdoor firing and produce Friday 5 April

your own ceramic masterpiece to take home with you. Paint Your Own Art Deco Plate

10am ‐ 12.30pm or 1 ‐ 3.30pm, £25 per person (includes £12 Friday Twilight - Captain Stingrays Groove Machine Saturday 6 April museum admission). Please call 01782 237777 to book. Friday 5 April The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Britannia Sky £5 Saturday 6 April Captain Stingrays Groove Machine is a live band specializing in AfroBeat, Dance, Easter Craft Activity ‐ Latin, and Reggae. They perform an energetic and beautiful mix of musical styles Under the Sea Beatrix Potter and Friends with a delivery of fun and enjoyment, you will not be disappointed. Bar opens at FREE Saturday 13 April Tuesday 16 April 6.30pm with the live performance at 8.30 – 10.30pm. Free. Gladstone Pottery Museum Craft Activity‐ Animal Masks £1.50 Saturday 13 April Make your own underwater scene clay tile inspired by

Paint Your Own Art Deco Plate patterns from the Tile Gallery in our drop‐in craft Raku Pottery Workshop Saturday 6 April Gladstone Pottery Museum workshop. Suitable for all ages, 11am ‐ 12.30pm and £25 Saturday 13 April 1.15 ‐ 3pm, £1 plus admission. Learn more about the art deco style of painting famously used by artists Easter Craft Activity ‐ such as Susie Cooper and Clarice Cliff. Paint your own decorative plate to Under the Sea take home in this hour and a half workshop. 11am ‐ 12.30pm, £12 per Easter Cupcake Tuesday 16 April person (includes museum admission). Call 01782 237777 to book. Decorating £1+ admission Thursday 18 April Craft Activity‐ Clay Animals Gladstone Pottery Museum £1.50 Tuesday 16 ‐ Thursday 18 April Britannia Sky Saturday 6 April The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Easter Animals Storytelling Decorate your own Easter cupcake to eat immediately

Admission Wednesday 17 April Contrary to popular belief, Britain has played a vital role in space‐ or take home with you with help from our expert baker flight history. In this remarkable presentation by Andrew Lound and decorator. 11am ‐ 3pm, included with admission. Easter Cupcake Decorating

the history of Britain in space is examined in context, with due Admission Thursday 18 April credit being paid to those who have tried to push Britain skyward. Sewing the Sixties Craft Activity‐ Spring Hats

The presentation takes us up to date with research on probes and £1.50 Sunday 28 April Tuesday 23‐ Thursday 25 April Tim Peake’s flight accompanied by historic images, movie clips The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and music. Talk at 2pm, tickets £5, call 01782 232323 to book. Easter Craft Activity ‐ Join Meridith Towne as she delves into Decorate a Faberge Egg Admission Tuesday 23 and Friday 26 April Beatrix Potter and Friends her 1960s sewing box and delights in a Saturday 13 April The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery home dressmaking journey through the Easter Animals Storytelling

decade. Rediscover the wonders of Wednesday 24 April Join Miss Potter as she remembers her friends from Hill Top Farm and bri‐nylon, crimplene and Simplicity Admission embarks on a brand‐new adventure with them. A dapper foxy gentleman patterns. With a whole wardrobe of Brick Carving thinks nothing of helping himself to a brand new ‘kerchief from his Hedgehog Admission Thursday 25 April original homemade garments to see neighbour’s washing line. When his stealing gets too much, she calls for help from Cindy dolls fashion to beach wear Sewing the Sixties

from the most famous Rabbit of all. Together they trick him and show him the £10 you will wish you were still sewing in the Sunday 28 April error of his ways. Free, performance times 11.30am, 1.30 and 3pm. sixties! 1pm, £10 includes a Cream Tea. Easter Pottery Painting Tuesday 16 ‐ Saturday 20 April

Events April • The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery • Gladstone Pottery Museum & Monday 22 ‐ Saturday 27 April from £1+ admission