Learning and Engagement Team

Check out our new 3D Virtual Tour of the #OrientalMuseum available now on our website durham.ac.uk/things-to-do/v… We hope this amazing tour will help all our visitors get a feel for our galleries, carpark, toilets and lifts before they visit👇 @VCDBusiness #accessibility #Museums

📢EVENT TONIGHT POSTPONED!📢 Unfortunately we are having to postpone the Durham University Student Art Prize launch event this evening. Watch this space for reschedule details! @DuCollections @DUThingsToDo

With expertise from @dulearning , Year 2 spent the afternoon learning all about the Great Fire of London. We learned about how historians at @durham_uni answer questions about the past using different sources like maps, Samuel Pepys’ diary and experimental archaeology. 🔥🪶

The team are loving supporting Celebrate Science 2024 on Palace Green! Come along, spin the wheel and discover all about the cures in the archives, find your cure and have a go at historic book printing! @DUThingsToDo @DuCollections

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After a technical issue, the Little Dragon's Under 5's Eventbrite booking is now live for tomorrow's session. Please follow the link to book below: eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-drago… Thank you everyone!

The fantastic MA Museum and Artefact Studies opened exhibitions last week at the Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and Durham Castle. The students have created two new podcast episodes to learn more about our collections. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thing…

Exciting news! Today at the #OrientalMuseum @DUThingsToDo we are trying out a new virtual reality experience in our Silk Roads Gallery and we're looking for some young volunteers to take part. Come along from 10am to join in the fun!

Tickets for Holi Festival at #OrientalMuseum on Sat 23 March are available to book now. There are 5 timed powder throw slots, so follow the link shorturl.at/bkTZ6 and welcome the spring season to Durham. Everyone welcome. @durham_uni

Here at the Oriental Museum we have spent the day putting on display our largest set of Hina dolls ready for the traditional Japanese Festival of Hina Matsuri. Here is the team creating the stage and decorating it then adding the emperor and empress and members of their court.

At the #DUOrientalMuseum our lion is getting ready to welcome hundreds of children from the local area over the spring festival. @dulearning See if you can spot all the different zodiac animals in our exhibition. 👀 #lunarnewyear #yearofthedragon #yearofthedragon2024 #liondance

Looking forward to Lantern Festival at the Oriental Museum, thank you to the @TheNorthernEcho for our shout-out! thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24096440.… #lunarnewyear #LunarNewYear2024 #lunarnewyear #YearOfTheDragon

@LanchesterEP We loved working with all of you yesterday. Thank you for sharing the fantastic photos - we hope to work with all of you again soon!

@LanchesterEP @durham_uni We are so pleased you enjoyed your visit from the team, great photographs!

5PT have had such an enjoyable time with John from @durham_uni @dulearning. An amazing archaeologist who helped us so much with our topic ‘Pharaohs’.

Thank you to everyone who has helped make Diwali 2023 a really special time at the @DUThingsToDo Oriental Museum! Especially to the students, volunteers, artists, musicians and local community attendees who really help make our festivals special! #museumsforeveryone

Our new online exhibition follows the story of Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham and one of the most respected and controversial figures of the Tudor period. Link below: stories.durham.ac.uk/tunstall/ @durhampointers @ThisisDurham @DurhamWHS

@ChoristerSchool We hope you enjoyed the visit, the children look like they are having a wonderful time!

Today Year 2 had a visitor from @dulearning , who gave a workshop on The Great Fire Of London. The pupils read maps, used quills to write down which five items they would save in a fire, put out imaginary fire with an old leather bucket and found out even more about the topic!