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Upcoming Events at the Bacup Museum
VE Day 80
As the residents of Bacup rejoiced in the streets, many Bacupian prisoners of war, who had faced forced marches continued to endure their struggles. They returned home days, and at times weeks, after VE Day, sharing their harrowing experiences. Join us as we commemorate both the joys and the sorrows of VE Day.
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Warm Space Tuesday
Join us in our warm welcoming environment, enjoy Free refreshments and make new friends.
Warm Space Thursday
A warm welcome awaits you in our relaxing warm space. Enjoy a little Yesterday’s Bacup or just sit, chat, and make new friends
Warm Space Tuesday
Join us to make new friends while staying warm in a friendly and welcoming environment.
Kids Craft Club
Looking for fun things to do with the kids this February Half Term Come and Enjoy Some Fun Filled Activities With Us.
Warm Space Family History Session
Joins us in a warm friendly environment and try your hand at uncovering your family history. Free refreshments.
Warm Spaces Yesterdays Bacup
Join us for a look though some of our fantastic photograph archives for a tour around Yesterdays Bacup. Free refreshments.
Warm Space Family History
Joins us in a warm friendly environment and try your hand at uncovering your family history. Free refreshments.
Warm Space Adult Colouring
Join us for some adult colouring sessions, free refreshments and a warm welcome
Warm Space Family History Session
If you have ever wanted to dig into your family history join us for a taster session
Warm Space Yesterday’s Bacup
Don’t sit at home feeling the cold. Join us for refreshments, chat, and a tour of Yesterdays Bacup with our unique photo archive.
Coming In 2025
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Sorry but due to adverse weather conditions we have had to postpone our warm spaces event until Tuesday 14th January.
Free Warm Space
Don’t sit at home feeling the cold this Winter, join us in our Warm Space every Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30 - 4:00 pm.
Come and See Santa
Come along and enjoy a magical visit with Santa. Free entry for all children and free gift.
Christmas at the Museum
Join us as we open our Christmas festivities with Charles Dickens and his Christmas Carol, a Frozen wonderland with Elsa & friends Olaf and Sven. Our child visitors can get Christmas crafty when they make their own tree decorations and snow globes, not forgetting our magical Santa’s workshop and parlour and a special visit from the man himself on Saturday 21st December.
Mrs Ibbitts' Plague House
Prepare yourself for an eerie encounter with Mrs Ibbitts; plague doctor…. Careful of the rats……..
Crafty Sunday
Join us for our last Sunday opening of the season. Enjoy the museum collections and Free Halloween crafts for kids.
Clogs on Broadway
Bacup’s rich and varied history is beautifully illustrated through the photographs and artefacts in the Bacup Museum collections, as well as the memoirs of Bacupians from days long past. A time when every street was full of happy children, playing the popular street games, whilst parents sat on their doorsteps, chatting and watching the games.
As part of the annual national Heritage Open Day festival join us as we display various artefacts and written memoirs of characters such as “Joe Spratt” a well-known firewood dealer in Newgate. Joe never wore anything on his feet but his "Sunday clogs". These had a hand-carved pattern on the uppers, the uppers and wood soles being fastened together with brass nails all around the clog, which had a pointed toe and were highly polished. Joe's claim to fame was having walked down Broadway, New York, in his clogs.
There will be events happening all over the valley throughout the HOD Festival check out the leaflet for more information.
Creative History Dinosaurs & Fossils
Our last Creative History Thursday is Dinosaurs & Fossils. Make you own woodcraft dinosaur or dino print or fossil with our air drying clay. Have your photo taken with Tommy the T-Rex
Creative History
Join us as we celebrate some Great Britain’s.. Make your own London scene and enjoy some great museum activities.
Museum Open Day
A world of history, nature, and culture as we showcase a curated selection of events, workshops, and displays that cater to enthusiasts of all ages. Free Crafting activities and museum quizzes for our child visitors. Refreshments available.
Creative History Bugs, Bees and Flowers
Come along and make your own bugs, bees and flower masks, and photo frames. Children’s entrance and all craft materials Free. Adults £5.00.
Creative History Thursday - Vikings
This Thursday we do all things Viking …… Make your own Viking mask and longboat have your photo taken with our Viking helmet, fun word searches, find out what your name is in Viking.
Creative History
This week we celebrate the Olympics with an Olympian museum scavenger hunt, make your own winners rosette and Union Jack windmill.
Museum Open Day
Bacup’s rich and varied history is beautifully illustrated through the photographs and artefacts in the Bacup Museum collections.