Families can enjoy FREE admission to Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet this Spring Bank Holiday!

Join us for a preview of our annual October Steam event on Sunday 30 and Monday 31 May when Steam Rollers, Road Locomotives and Engines will be on display*.

Free family activities will also take place on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd June when we'll be ‘Down on the Farm' in conjunction with the Hawley Gallery. Kids can step back in time to when Abbeydale Works made scythes and other farming implements and learn how the tools were made and used over hundreds of years. You'll learn to spin and card sheep's wool and have fun dressing up with our role playing Living History characters.

Opening times: Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 11am - 4.45pm. Closed Fridays and Saturdays. The Hawley Gallery is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

*Please note: Living History activities will not be available at the Steam Preview

Spring is coming which means Kelham Island Museum is pleased to once again offer FREE admission for everyone during the Sheffield School Spring Bank Holiday.

It's a great time to visit with new family attractions such as The Hawley Gallery with it's giant tools display, to firm favourites the Little Mesters Street and the mighty River Don Engine. See the engine powered up and running at 12pm and 2pm daily with an additional 4pm run on Sundays.

The Melting Shop Children's Play Area will be open throughout the holiday giving children the chance to follow the process of making steel in a fun, hands-on way. Kids will love being melted like iron in our swirling ball pool before being poured, rolled and hammered and then shaped into a finished product which could be anything from a steel fork to a submarine! Our interactives explaining the processes of steel production include giant 3D jigsaws of the Sheffield Simplex car and a locomotive that budding engineers can explore both inside and out!

Kelham Island Museum is open Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 11am - 4.45pm (closed Friday and Saturday). 

Don't miss our new Furnace Cafe now open!

River Don Engine runs Mon - Thurs 12pm and 2pm and Sud 12pm, 2pm and 4pm

Find out what it was like to work as a Sheffield Steel maker