OUT & ABOUT
Welcome back to Barnsley Museums
Following months of preparations, the team at Barnsley Museums are proud to reopen all of their five sites for visitors to enjoy safely once again.
While their indoor venues may have been closed to visitors, locked down hasn’t meant locked out. The sites have still been a hive of activity, with outdoor spaces buzzing with visitors. The curators also devised an exciting digital programme to bring history, art and culture to homes across South Yorkshire which included cutting edge 360 virtual tours of previously unseen displays, digital jigsaws, live Q&As, history hits, digital displays and much more. Throughout the pandemic, the museum’s services have
remained a crucial part of community engagement and education, with the team also delivering care packages to those in the community who needed it the most. Now, six months after closing their doors, all five fantastic free venues are open once again and ready to welcome visitors back. There will be some changes for a little while as they ensure all venues remain covid-secure for everyone’s safety. Face coverings will be needed while you view the collections and exhibitions indoors and some interactive displays have been removed or prohibited to reduce touchpoints. All toilet facilities are open and strict safety measures are in place around hygiene and social distancing. But the experience is no less special, with new and exciting exhibitions coinciding with the relaunch.
Elsecar Heritage Centre
One of the north’s most unique shopping experiences, Elsecar’s open-air heritage centre is a safe and relaxing place for you to pick up new purchases and support local family businesses. Set in the Earl Fitzwilliam’s former ironworks, the charming Victorian workshops are home to a variety of independent retailers and studios.
There is a large antiques centre which is an Aladdin’s Cave of historical wonders. You can also find handcrafted items for your home with Elsecar’s artists and makers selling wooden furniture, glass ornaments, interior decorations and art.
Stock up on craft supplies for those new hobbies you’ve started during lockdown, or find educational wooden toys that children will treasure forever.
Add to your music collection with the vinyl record shop, or update your wardrobe with new women’s and children’s fashions.
If you’ve had to postpone your wedding or are planning future nuptials, Elsecar’s bridal shop and creative photographers are waiting to hear from you. There are two cafes open to take a break from shopping, both with outdoor seating. Or why not take home some treats from the traditional sweet shop or real ale tap. Elsecar’s natural foods shop can help with any well-being questions and sell local honey, herbal drinks, plus vitamins and supplements. Although the event and festival programme at The Ironworks is on hold, and the Heritage Railway currently not in steam, there is lots more to see and do in the village making it a great trip out.
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© IGPOTY/Jacky Parker Cannon Hall
The outdoor spaces at Cannon Hall park and gardens have continued to be a place to relax, reflect and appreciate the great outdoors during lockdown. But until Thursday 22nd October, the grounds will also set the scene for the museum’s first ever outdoor exhibition.
The museum is proud to host the touring exhibition from International Garden Photographer of the Year which is now standing pride of place in the Walled Garden on all-weather structures and depicts some of the stunning nature and plant photography from the competition’s finalists.
Moving the love of outdoors inside, the museum has also reopened with the launch of the IGPOTY supplementary exhibition ‘Beautiful Barnsley’ which is devised of spectacular photographs of the borough submitted by local photographers. This new photography exhibition only enhances the permanent collection at Cannon Hall which includes paintings, ceramics, glassware and furniture displayed throughout the Hall’s historic rooms. Once belonging to the Spencer-Stanhope family, you can still get a feel for what Georgian life was like for a wealthy Barnsley family and the people who worked for them. The Pavilion cafe near the car park is also open for takeaways.
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