Look, Draw, Display – Have fun, enjoy drawing, happy days !

If you are looking for activities to entertain the family this summer, why not visit Calderdale Industrial Museum. In addition to our four floors of fascinating exhibits, we also have two interesting children’s activities. You can create your own mini-book of your favourite museum exhibits, and you will also have the opportunity to design a carpet. The carpet designs will be displayed in the museums gallery, and one lucky winner will win an exciting moquette gift in our prize draw.

All are welcome to participate. Admission (which includes all activities) is  £5 for adults, £4 for concessions £4 with free entry for children.

We are open every Thursday and Saturday in the school summer holidays 10am to 4pm, with last admission at 3pm.

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New Bobbin Trail

Why not visit Calderdale Industrial Museum in 2024, we are open from Saturday 6th January 2024 and have a new “Bobbin Trail” around the museum. Bobbins are used to weave cloth which was a very important industry in Calderdale. Take our trail to find out more about other trades and industries that were in this area. There are pictures of bobbins hidden in the museum. Every time you find one there are questions to answer. One set of questions our very young visitors may enjoy or if you like a challenge you can answer the more challenging set (or even both!). If you enjoy the trail and would like a bobbin of your own, we have a wide range of toys and gifts made from bobbins in our shop.

Yorkshire through Lens and Brush

– A Respective of Photographs and Artwork by Terry Sutton

Terry Sutton has been capturing the changing lives and scenery of West Yorkshire for more than sixty years. We are delighted to present a retrospective of his vast output of photographs, sketches and paintings. In the 1970’s he began a series of illustrations based on photographs of the relentlessly changing industrial landscapes of what was once the “industrial West Riding”. Cinemas, chapels, railway stations, warehouses, mills and other buildings were abandoned and left for years to fall into dereliction. To many, these once important servants of our communities became eyesores, for Terry, the textures, colours and strange beauty provided inspiration for his first book, Yesterday’s Yorkshire – A Celebration of the Industrial West Riding published in 2001. His second book  Hard Graft – Yorkshire at Work pays tribute to Yorkshire’s rich heritage of craftmanship and industrial achievement.

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