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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

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
Woodhorn Museum is marking the end of its year-long programme celebrating 90 years of the Pitmen Painters with a brand-new exhibition on their early years and lasting impact.
Lauren Coulson

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

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
One of the region’s longest running events, the Northumberland Miners’ Picnic, will be held in Ashington next week.
Charlie Watson

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

The Miners' Picnic returned to Woodhorn Museum for the first time in three years.

Northumberland Miners' Picnic in pictures

Former journalist Vince Gledhill with some of his old newspaper cuttings.

50 years of newspaper cuttings donated to museum

The Northumberland Miners' Picnic is returning after a two-year break.

Northumberland Miners' Picnic returns this weekend

Age UK Northumberland's Platinum Jubilee afternoon tea at Woodhorn Museum.

Age UK Northumberland celebrates Queen's Jubilee

‘Work, Rest and Play’ by Bethan Maddocks at Woodhorn Museum.

New art exhibition celebrates role of pit ponies

Residents from Cheter Court care home at Woodhorn Museum.

Care home residents enjoy Woodhorn Museum visit

The annual Miners' Picnic at Woodhorn Museum returns next month.

Family friendly Miners' Picnic to return to Ashington after two-year hiatus

The Northumberland Miners' Picnic is returning for 2022.

Northumberland Miners' Picnic to make a welcome return this summer

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Fiona Bruce outside the Woodhorn Mining Museum.

Antiques Roadshow makes a return to Woodhorn Museum
A moving story behind a George Cross medal to a former miner took centre stage as the BBC headed back to Ashington.
David Sedgwick

Bethan Maddocks' exhibition at Berwick Museum and Art Gallery includes a giant paper cut Twelfth Night Pie.

Artist brings animal stories to life in new exhibition

'Remembered' by Ted Taylor, overall winner of Open Exhibition 2022: A Portrait of Northumberland.

Ashington painter named winner of museum exhibition

Suzanne Zack is enchanted by a pencil drawing of ‘Jasmine’ by Henry Ryland during the Antiques Roadshow visit to Woodhorn.

Northumberland museum to take centre stage on BBC's Antiques Roadshow

Museums Northumberland has raised the £77,000 needed for a new accessible play area at Woodhorn Museum.

Funding secured for new accessible play area at Northumberland museum

Mining apprentices with winding wheel at Ashington Colliery (1981).

New photography exhibition captures decades of Ashington’s mining history

Woodhorn Museum has received £10,000 towards its plans to create an accessible play area.

Museum's plans for new accessible play area gets £10,000 boost

Woodhorn Museum’s new accessible play area will encourage physical and social play between children of differing ages and abilities.

Museum bosses launch fundraising campaign for new play area

Activities for children in Northumberland. Clockwise from top left: The Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf at The Alnwick Garden; Go Ape at Matfen Hall; Northside Surf School paddle-boarding at Amble; and Whitehouse Farm, near Morpeth.

27 things for families to do in Northumberland

Paul Smith, lead singer of the band Maxïmo Park.

Intimate show to mark Northumberland Miners' Picnic

Northumberland Folk by illustrator, Jonny Hannah, at Woodhorn Museum.

Northumberland's most curious characters feature in new exhibition

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