Discovery Nights - The Good Life

6pm - 9pm

£8 + booking fee. Booking essential. 

For adults 

The new Discovery Nights are after-hours events for discerning adults offering fresh perspectives on the world around you. 

In the first ever Discovery Nights event The Good Life, adults can enjoy the museum after-hours and embrace the vibe of sustainable living.  

Take an expert led tour of the museum’s costume stores; learn about foraging; experience storytelling sharing the history of cotton; swap clothes, create your own cosmetics, shop with local sustainable makers; try mindful crafting, and so much more.

With DJ Keep it Spinning setting the mood, drinks from local micro-brewery StuBrew and pizza and festive drinks in the museum café. 

Discover 

• Costume store tour – behind-the-scenes with curator Helen         
• Get up close to ‘Make Do and Mend’ material from Tyne & Wear Archives
• Join Justine Boussard the Amateur Ancestor for a story exploring one of the museum's historic cotton dresses       
• Meet the Cramlington Forager for an introduction to foraging
• Meet experienced engineer Kevin Urquhart on hand in Steam to Green to answer any questions   
• BerryCell – demos of solar energy involving interactive experiments with fruit-based solar cells

Try 

• Goodness Gracious Green - make your own natural facial oil 
• Blissful Remakes – find out how to repair and repurpose your wardrobe
• Swap Shop and Restyling with Making the Space Styling       
• Nature Makers - mindful crafting with clay and quilled paper
• Experience working on a wind farm via immersive drone footage through a VR headset, courtesy of Steam to Green headline sponsor Vattenfall.

 Browse or buy with

Adorn Jewellery| Delightfully Denim | For The Love Of The North | Hanging by a Fred | Hippy Hikers | Spinning Superiority Records | Tangent Photographic | saėėda | Vintage Revival

Part of the Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution adult event programme.