Each week there will be a different creative challenge as you find out about special objects from your local museum. Make some art and...

Look at our ‘Want to know more?’ sheet to see more about Char, mobiles and how other artists have been inspired to make mobiles and...

Each week there will be a different about special objects from your local museum. Make some art and send a photo to Rebecca, one of the...

The artist says: Can you mix a colour like terracotta using layers of coloured pencil, wax crayons, pastels or paint? Now use this to...

Make it with Penrith and Eden Museum. Welcome to our new project. Read the information below, then have a look at the objects we have...

Caption - Image shows a display case of mineral specimens. As we continue to walk around the gallery we walk past a spar box displayed on...

Caption - Blue sign of rainbow on a gate We are currently living through a defining moment in time, for the world and our local...

Robinson's School building, home to Penrith and Eden Museum, has a long and interesting history dating back to the year 1670 and...

Caption display cases in the geology gallery Caption - Ages of Eden museum panel from Ages of Eden exhibition, showing two images, one...

1 . Appleby (near Silverband Mine) 2. The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3. Plumpton 4. Castle Park 5. Hutton-in-the Forest 6....

1. In 1939 a Spitfire aeroplane crashed near which Eden town ? 2. In 1939 a northern Grammar school was evacuated to Penrith; which one...

Caption - Penrith Town Hall, preparing for VE Day, image shows bunting hung from lamposts and a few members of the public walking by....

In January 2020, the museum was awarded a small grant from the Heritage Fund for our reminiscince project Remembering Eden. Our...

An old postcard in Penrith Museum shows James Parkin standing in front of the Gloucester Arms Hotel in Great Dockray. He is holding a...

Caption - Image shows William Jameson’s wrestling belts William Jameson (image to the left) was described as‘ One of the most noted...

This is a perforated square stone, probably a line or net sinker, but which could also have been used as a ‘dobbie stone’ also know as a...

This is a pattern for making a weathervane which would have been cast from a sand casing formed around it. It is from the Stalkers iron...

Sarah is an award-winning artist from North West England. Here in her own words she describes the inspiration behind the beautiful images...