Events
Bruce Castle Museum
Admission is free for all events, unless specified.
- Opening hours
- Free family art and craft activities
- Events
- Exhibitions
- Evening talks
- Munch and Listen
Opening hours
- Museum
Wednesday to Sunday 1pm-5pm
Summer Bank Holidays 1pm-5pm.
Visiting groups including schools may book to visit at other times.
- Local History Archives Search-room
Wednesday and (alternate) Saturday 1pm-5pm
Thursday and Friday 9.30am-5pm.
It is advisable to book an appointment as we may not otherwise be able to accommodate your visit.
- Please note: the Museum and Archives are always closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day and Good Friday.
Free family art and craft activities
Drop-in Sundays 2pm to 4pm in 2012 - from Sunday 22 January.
All children under eight must be accompanied by an adult, and no adult admitted without an accompanying child.
For summer activities see below, and also the flyer in the attached files section, towards the bottom of this page.
|Back to topEvents
British Chinese Food Culture Weekend
Saturday 4 February 1pm-4pm
and
Sunday 5 February 2pm-4pm
As we enter the Year of the Dragon, the Ming-Ai Institute (website - external link) based in Bounds Green, celebrate the end of their Heritage Lottery Funded Project.
- Discover the delicious recipes and history of the Chinese Restaurant menu in the UK
- Watch a tea ceremony on the Saturday at 1pm
- Take part in a Chinese painting workshop on the Sunday at 2pm
- On both days, have a go at Chinese calligraphy, handicrafts and dough figurine making
The Workshops and refreshments are all free
Haringey Local History Fair
Saturday 18 February
11am-5pm
Want to find out more about Haringey’s history but just don’t know where to start? Well, this is the Fair for you. Stalls with experts on hand to help.
Admission free
Tell Me About It..!
Reminiscence Café at the Castle
Monthly chat and reminiscence over old photos and objects. Different topics to inspire.
Drop by on Tuesdays between 2-4pm.
- 21 February
- 20 March
With tea and biscuits
Love Vintage at The Castle
Our vintage fair for mothering Sunday
18 March 2012
11am-4.30pm
You really liked the first one, so we are doing it again
Admission: £1.50
Stall-holders, £25 per table: please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk for full details and a booking form
Come and treat your mum or yourself; lovely gifts from stalls selling vintage and vintage-inspired clothing, books, accessories and collectables.
Enjoy tea and cake with your mum. Take her to be pampered at our beauty stall!
Exhibitions
Faces to Names
Portraits of people behind Haringey by Brendon O'Hanlon
From 1 February-29 April 2012
For further information about the artist, click on the link in the external links section below
Location: First Floor Coleraine gallery
Merman
From 25 January-18 March 2012
A touring exhibition from the Horniman Museum (website - external link)
Location: ground floor near Old Kitchen
Tottenham’s Got Talismans
From 1 February
A small exhibition of amulets and lucky charms. These were created by local young people, inspired by the stories and history of Tottenham High Road from the Romans to today.
Read their messages for Tottenham on the wall of hope and add your own.
Part of the Stories of the World projects for the Cultural Olympiad. Supported by Renaissance.
Broadwater Farm: the story of a community 1967-2010
Until March 2012
Built between 1967 and 1971, 'The Farm' is home to 4,000 people. This exhibition curated by Odin Biddulph charts the achievements of the community and the changes following the disturbances 26 years ago. For further information about this project click on the link to The Broadwater Farm Project in the external links section below.
Location: First Floor Compton gallery
Carrying the Torch for Haringey: the Past, Present and Future of Our Sporting Heritage
Until March 2012
We celebrate a 100 years of sporting excellence, achievement and ambition in Haringey.
Exhibition includes original items from the 1948 Olympic Games in the borough and more recent sporting trials and triumphs, as we look forward to the 2012 Olympic Games. Supported by the Haringey 2012 Fund.
Location Old Kitchen
|Back to topEvening talks
Merman
Wednesday 29 February
Paulo Viscardi, Curator at the Horniman Museum, and Ross MacFarlane. Research Officer at the Wellcome Library (website - external link) on a voyage of discovery, across oceans, through time and into the realm of the merman.
Doors open 7pm for refreshments. Talk begins 7.30pm. Free admission.
Supported by The Friends of Bruce Castle (registered charity).
Please note, there are no evening talks in December.
The Knight's Hospitallers
Tom Foakes, curator at the Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell presents a history of the Knights Hospitallers, including a connection with St Ann's, Tottenham.
Wednesday 28 March
Doors open 7pm for refreshments. Talk begins 7.30pm. Free admission.
Supported by The Friends of Bruce Castle (registered charity).
Please note, there are no evening talks in December.
|Back to topMunch and Listen lunchtime talks
The Lancasterian School in Tottenham
by Peter Brown, Christine Protz and Deborah Hedgecock.
Monday 27 February
Find out how 200 years ago, in 1812, Joseph Lancaster’s school system came to be established in Tottenham.
Doors open at 12noon for refreshments. Free admission. Bring your lunch. Talks begin at 12.15pm.
Supported by The Friends of Bruce Castle (registered charity).
A Film From The Archives: Beauty & The Borough
Monday 26 March
With recently rediscovered and digitised film, we take a look at Hornsey and Muswell Hill in the 1950s.
Doors open at 12noon for refreshments. Free admission. Bring your lunch. Talks begin at 12.15pm.
Supported by The Friends of Bruce Castle (registered charity).
|Back to topOther information
Untold London
Untold London is a valuable resource for exploring London's hidden histories of our diverse communities. Click onto the link in the external links section below to discover more about exhibitions, events and collections including material from Bruce Castle Museum.
Attached Files
| Filename | Filetype | Size |
|---|---|---|
local history publications list.pdf  | Word | 101 KB |
news bruce castle - spring 12.pdf  | 73 KB | |
| PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat reader. Please click here to download. | ||
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