Events

Black and white picture of large christmas tree outdoors
Thursday 18 December 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm

Free, all welcome. Refreshments provided.

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.

December's session is: Christmas Special!

Expect pictures of past Christmas celebrations, old Christmas cards from our postal history collections, plus of course lots of mince pies and other sweet treats!

During the session you will be able to chat over morning tea in a welcoming environment, handle some of our museum and archive collections and share your own stories.

Bruce Castle in 1940 with sandbags outside the entrance
Tuesday 20 January 2026, 2.00pm to 4.00pm

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Let’s celebrate! This year Bruce Castle Museum will be 120 years old, and what a roller coaster ride of survival it has been! Closed during two World Wars, used as a municipal health clinic during the twenties and thirties – and all the time teetering on the brink of full-time closure, maybe even demolition, as its very old fabric needed constant, urgent repairs. Now the recent MEND grant has given us a much-restored building we can look forward to many more years with Bruce Castle open to the public.