Heritage Skills Day
Join us for a fun packed day with live heritage skills and craft demonstrations from talented makers.
Step back in time and experience heritage skills and traditional craft techniques that shaped our local heritage. Throughout the day, skilled makers and practitioners will be bringing historic techniques to life through hands-on demonstrations and fascinating displays.
What's on:
- heritage stone and mortar techniques and heritage joinery delivered by Historic Property Restoration
- traditional signwriting delivered by Ron Carroll Signs & Art
- traditional cooking with Barefoot Kitchen
- beekeeping (from 12pm weather permitting)
- green woodworking - the traditonal craft of working with fresh (unseasoned) wood
- discover fascinating historic insights from Townscape Heritage Team, Teesside Archives and Tees Archaeology
Our volunteers will also be demonstrating a range of skills in our Victorian Street, including:
- Blacksmithing with our award winning blacksmith, Peat Oberon
- Ironmongery
- Letterpress printing
- Pyrography
Event information
The Heritage Skills Day will take place on Saturday 28 March from 10am until 4pm.
Last admission to the museum is 3.30pm.
Assistance dogs only.
Booking information
- entry to the Heritage Skills Day is included with an annual or day Museum Pass
- if you already have a museum pass, don't forget to bring it with you
- please buy your Museum Pass online before your visit, to save time on arrival
Buy your museum pass before your visit
The project is being delivered through The Stockton Northern Gateway Townscape Heritage Project which is a £2.9million scheme that is joint funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council.
The project aims to improve the historic environment to the Conservation Area at the northern end of Stockton High Street, covering from Regent Street, up Norton Road to Queen Street. A priority within the scheme is delivering an engagement programme raising awareness of the heritage of the area and the importance of traditional heritage skills. It forms part of the Council's programme to reshape Stockton Town Centre.
