Posted By: Editor
July 15, 2024
Toddler Tuesday at Newton Abbot Museum, 9:30am-10:30am
Free informal sessions for children up unto the age of 4, every Tuesday during term-time, within the museum space.
Tuesday 16th and 23rd July – the last sessions of this term, although you are welcome to visit the museum at any time during our opening hours!
If you have any questions about these sessions please contact us at groups@newtonabbot-tc.gov.uk or phone us on 01626 201 121
Please note that food and drink (except water) are not allowed in the museum space, but we have a seating area on the first floor where you can enjoy any food that you have with you.
Take advantage of Newton’s Place facilities:
Hot drinks machine and seating area upstairs with highchair
Accessible toilets with changing facilities
Museum: Make and Create
Take place on the first Saturday of the month, further details available on the website.
Free workshop where families are encouraged to work together to create something based on that month’s theme. All children must be accompanied by a guardian for the duration of the session.
Our next workshop is:
The Art of Shopping!
Saturday 3rd August, 10:30am-12:30pm
This month our Make and Create session is linked to our Summer Exhibition: High Street 100
Shopping bags at the ready – we will make all sorts of different bags in this workshop to link with our summer exhibition. Practical, creative, and fun at the same time!
High Street 100
Running from 30th July until 31st August, a new, completely FREE exhibition will be taking a nostalgic look back over the last one hundred years of the town’s high street.
Newton Abbot High Street has been a thriving hub of retail activity for many years and using the 100-year celebration of Austins department store joining the high street as inspiration, this exhibition will highlight some of the town’s favourite shops from 1924 until the present day. It will show changes in shopping trends and offer a (shop) window into how the high street has changed over the decades.
There will be activities and talks taking place throughout August, and further information about these will be available on our website.
Opening Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 9:30am-4:30pm
Saturday, 9:30am-1:30pm
Closed Sunday, Monday and Bank Holidays
The Stover Canal Trust Exhibition
This summer the museum is joining forces with Stover Canal Trust to celebrate the work of its volunteers with a photographic exhibition chronicling the extensive restoration work they have tackled over the last 25 years.
The exhibition will be based in the main museum space over the summer holidays, and will also feature dioramas of the canal, as well as objects found during years of excavation work.
Come and see the brilliant work the trust has undertaken, and if you are looking for a new volunteering opportunity, come and chat to members of Stover Canal Trust to see how you can help!
The exhibition will take place between 30th July until 31st August, in the main museum space at Newton Abbot Museum.
Opening Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 9:30am-4:30pm
Saturday, 9:30am-1:30pm
Closed Sunday, Monday and Bank Holidays
