Take part in some spring cleaning at Kelham Island Museum this Spring Half Term holiday!

Learn about traditional cleaning methods and share your own tips with fun drop in activities taking place in the Museum .*

Forget washing machine and dishwashers, we've rummaged through our stores to find their Victorian predecessors.

Suitable for all the family!

Tuesday 31 May & Wednesday 1 June: 11am - 12noon & 2pm - 3pm.

*General admission charges apply: Adults £4.50, Children go free (a 50p donation is suggested for the activities)

A Talk by Ken Hawley with Mary Walker

Wed 25 May 1.45pm-3.30pm  £5.50

Individuals and companies have used personal marks or trademarks through history to identify their work and guarantee its quality. Ken will talk about how marks were made by hand and share some of the fascinating stories behind individual marks along with Mary who helped her husband Basil make marks by hand for many years.

Price includes entrance to Kelham Island Museum, a short guided tour of the Hawley Gallery, Ken's talk and object handling session.

Places are limited so please book early. To reserve your place please contact Sue Willey on 0114 272 2106 or in person at the Museum Shop.

Don't miss our exciting family event programme at Kelham Island Museum ... more details coming soon!

A Kelham Haunting

Sat 2 July 2011

Are you brave enough to help us find the Ghost in the Machine? Book your family onto one of our spooky evening tours of the Museum and find out what goes on after dark. Part of the Sheffield Children's Festival 2011

Booking details coming soon!

Holidays at Home - Vintage Summer Fayre

Sat 30 & Sun 31 July 2011

Reminiscing the Wake Weekends of the 1940's, this popular summer event returns with a weekend of live music and dance, street entertainment, vintage stalls, living history home front fun, 1940's kitchen and much more. In partnership with National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield).

Highlights include:

- UK's number one George Formby lookalike entertainer P.E.C esquire with guest appearance from J. Sutton aka : Beryl

- 1940s WARTIME experience with RADIOLYMPIA music show with your gramophone favourites plus radiolympia girl Miss IVY WALTERS

- Music of the 1940's' DJ Pete Jones, entertaining with the popular sounds of Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Cole Porter, Irvin Berlin and more!

With support from UK Home Front and Virtue to Victory, we encourage you to come along dressed in your 1940's best!

Down by the Riverside

Sat 24 Sept 2011

The Upper Don Walk Trust hosts its 5th annual event - family fun with stalls, leisure activities and riverside walks.

19th Victorian Christmas Market

Sat 3 & Sun 4 Dec 2011

A warm Dickensian welcome awaits as our biggest event of the year returns! Join over 12,000 people for festive family fun and shopping with over 100 market stalls, traditional skills and entertainment.

If you are interested in getting involved with any of our events we would love to hear from you. Please contact Niki on 0114 2010610 or events@simt.co.uk

This Easter at Kelham Island Museum you can see the Sheffield Hallmark on items of precious metal from the Sheffield Assay Office Silver Collection on display until 24 April as part of the exciting Galvanize Sheffield Festival. 

You'll also find family activities based around this famous mark encouraging children to do their own mark-making  Tues 12 / Wed 13 & Tues 19 / Wed 20 April 11am - 3pm. 

Make your Mark

Make your way through the museum to the Hawley Gallery where you can take part in our 'Design a Trademark' competition for your chance to win a chocolate Easter egg!

Have a look at the temporary exhibition ‘Make Your Mark' located in the Investigating More area of the Gallery and get inspired to design a trademark for a saw that is made right here in Sheffield.

Simply draw your trademark on an entry form, fill in your contact details and put your entry in the blue box.

Normal admission applies for all activities.

Pupils from Silverdale School celebrated the culmination of the exciting 'Design for Life' project with a visit to the Hawley Gallery at Kelham Island Museum to see their work on show as part of the latest temporary exhibition - ‘Make Your Mark!'.

The ‘Design for Life' project, funded by the Victoria & Albert Museum, brings together designers, teachers and museums in creative design projects. This year, pupils from Silverdale School took marks and mark making as their inspiration acknowledging Sheffield's world famous reputation as an important producer of edge tools, cutlery and silverware which are still exported worldwide today. All these Sheffield-Made products were given marks to identify their quality and advertise the company that made them, just as trademarks and logos are used today.

Pupils explored what made a good mark using objects and archive materials from the Hawley Collection at Kelham Island Museum and by visiting the Sheffield Assay Office.

Shaun Taylor, a graphic designer from Modern Creatives worked with Chris Wright, a Design Technology teacher at Silverdale School, to give the youngsters a brief to design their own mark for a product of their choice.

The inventive designs they created are now on show as part of the temporary exhibition - ‘Make Your Mark!' - in the Hawley Gallery until the end of June 2011.