Activities
- Free Family Art and Craft Activities
- Family Explorers at Bruce Castle
- Reminiscence Café at the Castle
- Get involved - Other Local Heritage Groups
Free Family Art and Craft Activities
Our family activities can now be found on our new Bruce Castle Museum and Archive website.
Why not take a look at our Women's History Crafts or our Family Art and Crafts, Quizzes and Storytime on the Black History Haringey 365 pages.
Family Explorers at Bruce Castle
To find out more about our Family Explorer trails, please visit our new Bruce Castle Museum and Archive website.
Reminiscence Café at the Castle
Our Reminiscence Cafe sessions will be running monthly from Tuesday 19 April.
Join us for our monthly reminiscence sessions for older people - just come along, enjoy a cup of tea and share your memories. Visit our new Bruce Castle Museum and Archive website for details of each session.
Facilitated by local historian Christine Protz, author of 'Tottenham, A History'.
Get involved - Other Local Heritage Groups
The Friends of Bruce Castle
Founded in 1995, the Friends of Bruce Castle (FoBC) is the support group for Bruce Castle Museum, Haringey Archive and Bruce Castle Park. The Friends are an invaluable help to the Museum and Archive Service. Over the past 20 years the Friends have actively supported through volunteering at events, raising funds to make educational and learning activities possible at Bruce Castle, as well as providing financial assistance to buy important historical acquisitions for the archive and museum collections.
Notable projects in partnership with Bruce Castle Museum and Haringey Archive include the conservation of the 1686 painting of Bruce Castle by Wolridge, the acquisition of photographs of Nelson Mandela visiting Muswell Hill and the preservation of 18th century samplers and textiles. The Family Activities programme each Sunday and during the school holidays and the Little Explorers' monthly workshops, would not be possible without the Friends' support and volunteer help. The Museum's evening and lunchtime talks programme is also run in partnership with the Friends.
To find out more about how you can support your local museum and archive at Bruce Castle and get involved by being a Friend, see the Friends of Bruce Castle website (external link). The Friends also have their own Facebook page (external link).
To contact the Friends directly, email: fobc@friendsofbrucecastle.org.uk Membership forms are available from the Reception Desk at Bruce Castle Museum.
Other local voluntary cultural, heritage and art groups
There are a significant number of voluntary local cultural, heritage and art groups in Haringey, in addition to the Friends of Bruce Castle.
Bruce Castle Museum and Haringey Archive work with a wide range of community groups each year.
The following list of voluntary culture, heritage and art groups are just a small selection of what goes on in Haringey. These groups regularly participate with Bruce Castle Museum and Haringey Archive, especially at the annual Haringey Local History Fair, and in providing talks and supporting events at Bruce Castle.
Follow the web links below to find out what they do and how you can get involved.
Useful external links
- Alexandra Palace Television Society
- Art2View
- Avril's Walks and Talks
- Collective Exchange
- Edmonton Hundred Historical Society
- Euroart Studios
- Friends of Alexandra Palace Theatre
- Friends of Bruce Castle
- Friends of Bruce Castle Park
- Friends of Finsbury Park
- Friends of Highgate Roman Kiln
- Friends of Hornsey Church Tower
- Friends of Lordship Rec
- Friends of Priory Park
- Friends of Tottenham Cemetery
- Friends of Tottenham Marshes
- George Padmore Institute
- Haringey First World War Peace Forum
- Haringey Vanguard BAME LGBTQ+ Project
- Harringay Online
- Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
- Highgate Society
- Hornsey Historical Society
- London, Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society
- Markfield Beam Engine and Museum
- Ming-Ai (London) Institute - Chinese Cultural Centre
- New River Action Group
- Noel Park Residents' Association
- Priscilla Wakefield: Tottenham Activist
- Radical History Network for North East London
- The Last Elm
- The Tottenham Theatre
- Tottenham Civic Society
- Tottenham Clouds
- Tottenham Conservation Advisory Committee
- Tottenham - Summerhill Road
- Tottenham Trees
- Turner in Tottenham
- Twisted Stocking
- Wise Thoughts - LGBT & BAME Arts