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Children & Young People’s Activities

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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Free
Six people, dressed in warm winter clothes, stand in a garden with Sunderland Museum behind them.

Children and Young People's Activities

How Does Your Garden Grow?

03 Jul – 11 Dec 2025

All ages

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Traintastic
Free
Three small children stand in a class room holding up small paper crafted trains

Children and Young People's Activities

Traintastic

19 Jul – 30 Aug 2025

All ages

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Terrific Train Trail
A large model of a green steam engine. The chimney is black.

Children and Young People's Activities

Terrific Train Trail

19 Jul – 05 Sep 2025

Ages 4+

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Arty Fridays: Clay Model Making - Clay Creations
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A female child with very dark brown hair with a pink headband sits at a desk modelling a clay pot. The table has a red tablecloth. The tablecloth has teddy bears printed over the red.

Children and Young People's Activities

Arty Fridays: Clay Model Making - Clay Creations

25 Jul 2025

Ages 4+

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History Mondays: Sunderland Saxons
Free
A male child wearing a red hoodie and blue baseball cap, and a female child wearing a top with pink hearts engage in a craft activity on the floor of a museum. Next to them is a plastic human skeleton.

Children and Young People's Activities

History Mondays: Sunderland Saxons

28 Jul 2025

Ages 4+

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Wellbeing Wednesdays
Free
A young girl dressed in an anorak and wearing headphones strikes a disco pose. She is holding a yellow toy.

Children and Young People's Activities

Wellbeing Wednesdays

30 Jul – 03 Sep 2025
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Exhibitions

The Power of a Dot
Free
A young school girl with pigtails interacts with a monitor screen. The screen is filled with lots of colourful dots and shapes.

Exhibitions

The Power of a Dot

Showing in Art Lounge, Level 2.

02 – 12 Jul 2025
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Adult workshops & Activities

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Creative Age
Free
An old lady in a flowery top sits at a table. She is engaging with arts and crafts

Adult Workshops and Activities

Creative Age

02 Jul – 22 Oct 2025

Ages 50+

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Green Exercise in the Community Garden
A community garden with a curved fence. The garden has a tree in the centre. There is a large green toy frog next to the tree. There is a square sign on the fencing with a colourful cartoon printed onto it.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Green Exercise in the Community Garden

16 Jul – 17 Dec 2025

Ages 50+

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Lunar Meditation Circles: Welcoming the Lionsgate Energies Shamanic Circle
A landscape rectangle shape filled with a solid navy blue and small white dots that signify the night sky. The main image is a Lionsgate Energies Shamanic Circle consisting of white circle with a white lion face

Adult Workshops and Activities

Lunar Meditation Circles: Welcoming the Lionsgate Energies Shamanic Circle

06 Aug 2025

Ages 16+

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Threads
Free
Five women sit around a table. They are knitting. All the women look to be retirement age. They are smiling.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Threads

09 Sep – 07 Oct 2025
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Lunar Meditation Circles: Samhain Shamanic Wellness Circle
A table with tarot cards, a large book with black cover and binding, a blue birds feather, a key, a skull, and pumpkins

Adult Workshops and Activities

Lunar Meditation Circles: Samhain Shamanic Wellness Circle

28 Oct 2025

16+

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Special Events

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Teenage Market
Free
A selection of colourful toys displayed on a flat surface with a white cloth. The toys include a hot pink frog.

Special Events

Teenage Market

16 Aug 2025
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Heritage Open Days: Vintage Bus Tour
Free
A single decker bus parked on grass. The bus is green, yellow, and white with the words Sunderland Busways on the front and side. Special and A are being displayed on the front.

Special Events

Heritage Open Days: Vintage Bus Tour

13 Sep 2025
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Heritage Open Days: Volunteer History Tours
Free
Several people, all over 50 years old on a tour of an art gallery. The tour guide is pointing at a large painting of a naval scene.

Special Events

Heritage Open Days: Volunteer History Tours

16 – 18 Sep 2025
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Talk: Sunderland's Architectural Treasures
Monkwearmouth Station by Thomas Moore, built in 1848 is a large station building in sandstone with four columns that lead into the main section of the building. There are two further wings of the structure, located left and right of the main entrance.

Talks

Talk: Sunderland's Architectural Treasures

18 Sep 2025

Ages 16+

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