Woodhorn Museum

Keith Merrin, Director of North East Museums; Lindsay Craig, Visitor Experience Supervisor (and accessibility lead) at Woodhorn Museum; and Jo Raw, Northumberland Venues Manager for North East Museums.

Woodhorn Museum celebrates national award for accessibility

Richard Nixon from Muckle LLP with Colin Heath from Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway.

Historic railway saved from closure

Luminarium Arborialis by Architects of Air.

Woodhorn Museum gets set to mark 20-year anniversary

Festive Tales, Woodhorn Museum. (Photo: Rich Kenworthy)

Festive Tales returns to Woodhorn Museum

Woodhorn Museum is among those shortlisted in the Best Accessible Museum category.

Woodhorn shortlisted for national Family Friendly Museum Award

Northumberland Miners' Picnic.

Music, heritage and family fun at Miners’ Picnic

Northumberland Miners' Picnic at Woodhorn Museum.

Music, heritage and family fun as Miners’ Picnic returns to Woodhorn

Woodhorn Museum is one of the venues included in the Ways to Play programme.

North East Museums launch family and budget friendly May half-term activities

From left, Michael Kelly, site manager at Compass Developments, Coun Glen Sanderson, Jo Raw, of North East Museums and Ian Simpson of Compass Developments at Woodhorn Museum.

Local firm wins £2.5m heritage centre revamp contract

Woodhorn Museum in Ashington. Photo: Simon Greener/NCJ Media.

Visitor numbers growing at museums since merger

The overall winning submission is Andy Martin’s photograph The Circus and the Graveyard, Peterlee.

Winners announced for exhibition at museum
The winning artists have been announced for the Northumberland Open Exhibition 2026, which recently opened at at Woodhorn Museum in Ashington.
Andrew Coulson

Charlie Hunnam with staff at Woodhorn Museum.

Hollywood star enjoys visit to Ashington museum

The Northumberland Open Exhibition runs from Saturday, February 14 until Sunday, May 10.

Upcoming exhibition at Woodhorn Museum sets new record

POPPY will explore themes of remembrance. (Photo: Darren Irwin)

Reimagined dance show ‘POPPY’ brings remembrance to life

The Heart of Woodhorn.

Community invited to take part in major planting project this October

Jemma Swinney.

Breast cancer survivor raises £1,500 with charity swims

Father Christmas visit at Woodhorn Museum, Ashington. (Photo: Rich Kenworthy)

Families invited to celebrate Christmas at Woodhorn Museum

Woodhorn nature walk.

Free wellbeing courses on offer from next month

Volunteers, the Woodhorn Weeders.

Fundraiser at Woodhorn Museum to support wildlife and community wellbeing

Workshops will also be taking place in the Pop Up Ashington Group Hut.

Museum welcoming families for a summer of nature and creativity

Northumberland Miners' Picnic at Ashington's Woodhorn Museum on Saturday, June 14.

13 brilliant pictures from the annual Northumberland Miners' Picni

Mr Wilson’s Second Liners.

Visitors to Miners’ Picnic invited to join parade

Mik Critchlow.

New gallery chronicling Ashington over four decades set to open

Northumbria University’s Tom Smith, UK student recruitment and access manager, and Sarah Hall, student recruitment and access coordinator, pictured with the Campaign of the Year Award.

Northumbria University wins awards for projects rooted in Northumberland

Woodhorn Museum.

Three Northumberland museums join North East Museums

Documentary photographer, Mik Critchlow. (Photo: Jason Thompson)

New gallery to be unveiled honouring a Northumberland mining photographer

A total of 379 artworks have been selected for this year’s Northumberland Open Exhibition.

Record breaking 458 artworks submitted for exhibition at Woodhorn Museum

Pitman ReDiscovered will set off on its North East tour in February.

Innovative film brings Pitmen Painters to life through dance
Eliot Smith Dance and Jason Thompson of Sound Ideas Media proudly presents PITMAN ReDiscovered.
Lauren Coulson

Woodhorn Museum in Ashington. Photo: Simon Greener/NCJ Media

Woodhorn Museum repair funds approved by councillors

Woodhorn Museum in Ashington. Photo: Simon Greener/NCJ Media.

Plans to merge Northumberland Museums with Tyne and Wear sites approved

The Ashington Group circa 1941. Pictured in The Ashington Group hut. Copyright: The Ashington Group.

Pitmen Painters exhibition celebrates the miners who changed art in Britain

Whippets by George Blessed.

The Pitmen Painters to be celebrated in dance

Join wildlife charity for wellbeing course this Autumn.

Wildlife charity looking after public wellbeing with free course

Woodhorn Museum in Ashington is among those managed by Museums Northumberland. (Photo by LDRS)

Call for transparency over future of Museums Northumberland

Dancers Rowan Parker and Yamit Salazar will perform Duet. (Photo by Fabrice Herrault/Eliot Smith Dance)

Dance company to perform at museum

An aerial view of the Northumberland Miners' Picnic

Northumberland Miners' Picnic at Woodhorn Museum

The choir performed in at its annual concert at Holy Sepulchre Church in Ashington last month. (Photo by Ashington and District Male Voice Choir)

Choir prepares for events marking miners’ strike

Ashington & District Male Voice Choir at their recent Annual Concert

Ashington Choir To Commemorate Coal Mining Anniversary

Ashington Colliery Brass Band, Bedlington Brass Community Band, Ellington Colliery Band, and Newbiggin Jayess Brass Band will be performing at the event. (Photo by Museums Northumberland)

Miners’ Picnic all set for 2024 event

Northumberland Flood Plain. Picture: Jim Donnelly

New exhibition to illustrate the importance of conservation

Oliver Kilbourn: My Life as a Pitman starts on Friday. (Photo by Colin Davison)

Exhibition of Pitmen Painters artist Oliver Kilbourn's work

The open exhibition at Woodhorn Museum. Picture: Colin Davidson

Artist helps kickstart year-long celebration of the Pitmen Painters

Dancer Yamit Salazar at Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland. (Photo by Darren Irwin)

Museum to host contemporary dance collaboration

Station Court Care Home in Ashington. (Photo by Google)

Care home to do sponsored memory walk

'Notice' by Imogen Cloët is on display at Woodhorn Museum until September 3.

New art installation at Woodhorn Museum
A new art installation inspired by the region’s iconic mining banners and the materials and techniques used in the mining industry has gone on display at Woodhorn Museum.
Andrew Coulson

Summer at Woodhorn Museum.

Museums Northumberland celebrates the arrival of the summer holidays

Taking place at Woodhorn Museum, the event included music, performance and arts and culture.

Northumberland Miners’ Picnic hailed a big success

Northumberland Miners’ Picnic is returning in June.

Details of this year's Northumberland Miners’ Picnic unveiled

A bike during the road run.

Hundreds of motorbikes turn out for Easter road run

Woodhorn Museum in Ashington is a museum, heritage colliery site, and the home of the Northumberland Archives.

Northumberland attraction grateful for £200,000 of ‘lifeline’ funding

There will be plenty of fun with 'bugs n stuff' at Woodhorn Museum this Easter.

Fun family events and activities at Museums Northumberland sites

The gardening group will meet every Wednesday morning.

Gardening group launches in museum grounds

The ice trail at the Woodhorn Museum will take place over two days in the new year.

Woodhorn Museum to host ice sculpture trail

Illuminated sheep art work at Bamburgh with artist Deepa Mann-Kler
(photo: Raoul Dixon)

Illuminated sheep arts trail to light up Northumberland this autumn

An intricately patterned jacket features autumnal colours.

New exhibition at Woodhorn Museum features work by local artists

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