Events

Free, all materials provided. No booking required, just drop-in!

Find out how snakes move, see a real snake skeleton, and then use split pins to make your own slithering snake.  

This activity is suitable for ages 4 to 8 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Tottenham Heritage Walks with Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating Jewish History Walking tour around Tottenham.

Free, all materials provided. No booking required, just drop-in!

Find out how snakes move, see a real snake skeleton, and then use split pins to make your own slithering snake.  

This activity is suitable for ages 4 to 8 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Tottenham Heritage Walks with Bruce Castle Museum & Archive bring you a free and fascinating Jewish History Walking tour around Tottenham.

Photographs and Stories of Holocaust Survivors from Haringey.

With Dr Jan Marsh, Curator, Writer, Researcher

Free event, all welcome

Free, booking required.

Free, booking recommended.

This month’s Curator’s Pick for LGBT+ History Month is with special guest and award-winning figurative artist Sadie Lee, as she takes a look back at one of her early paintings in oils - ‘An Eligible Spinster’.

Known for her challenging paintings that focus on a range of subjects, including the representation of women in art, sexuality, gender and the ageing body, Sadie will be guiding us through the symbolism and meanings of this self-portrait.

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Following on from the success of the ‘GRIP’ exhibition, come and join the conversation with Code 1 Community and explore the history and cultural legacy of the Windrush ‘Barrel Babies’.

Special guests Livingston Gilchrist and his mother Daphne Gilchrist share their story.

7.00pm-7.30pm: Refreshments / Music

7.30pm-9.00pm: Talk and discussion with spoken word

Free, booking required.

400 years of LGBTQ+ Heritage in Tottenham.

Let our guide Carol Hebbs of Tottenham Heritage Walks lead you on a guided walking tour through 400 years of hidden histories starting from Bruce Castle Museum & Archive in the north through to Tottenham Green. Walking along and near Tottenham High Road, explore with Carol buildings and places that uncover overlooked voices and reveal fascinating new research from Bruce Castle Museum & Archive and inspiring stories of Haringey's LGBTQ+ heritage from the past four centuries.

Free, all materials provided. No booking required, just drop-in!

Discover the difference between crocodiles and alligators, see if you can work out which one our taxidermy specimen is, and craft an egg box alligator or crocodile.  

This activity is suitable for ages 6 to 10 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Meet: Costa Coffee, 3-7 West Green Rd, South Tottenham, London N15 5BX

The tour takes in the main High Road area looking at the infamous police station, the murals, the old clubs such as Shady Grove, and Body Music, one of the first black music shops in the area.

In 1554 when King Philip of Spain arrived in England to marry Queen Mary, he brought with him his Blackamoore servants. When he left England many years later, his servants remained and built a life for themselves in Tottenham. 

Come and hear their story.

The walk will last approximately 2 hours. 

Free, all materials provided. No booking required, just drop-in!

Discover the difference between crocodiles and alligators, see if you can work out which one our taxidermy specimen is, and craft an egg box alligator or crocodile.  

This activity is suitable for ages 6 to 10 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Meet: Costa Coffee, 3-7 West Green Rd, South Tottenham, London N15 5BX

During the 1960s the name Dyke and Dryden was unknown. By the 1970s they were one of the most famous names in the Tottenham area, opening a variety of shops, hairdressers and supplying Black women with the essential hair products that they needed.

This is just one of the many stories that West Green Road has to tell.

Free, all materials provided.

Join us for an afternoon inspired by the much-loved story The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Take part in our story session, get hands on with objects in the old kitchen and create a tiger picture using real tea.  

This activity is suitable for ages 4 to 8 years old.

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Join us at Bruce Castle once a month for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories. You’ll be able to chat and enjoy refreshments in a safe and welcoming environment.

This month, we will be looking at sports. From Spurs to skating, we have so many objects and stories at Bruce Castle relating to Haringey's sporting history. We hope to see you there!

You will also have exclusive access to the Museum's galleries. 

Free, all materials provided.

Find out more about bears and what they eat by getting up close with a real bear skull and examining the teeth! Then be inspired to make your own grizzly bear mask.  

This activity is suitable for ages 6 to 10 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Free, no booking required.

Led by Sarah Drummond, writer and director of forthcoming film ‘Don’t Say Gay’.

Section 28, the legislation implemented in 1988 which banned local authorities from ‘the promotion of homosexuality’ impacted a whole generation of LGBTQIA+ people from the 1980s to the present day. Haringey led the way as the centre of protests against the government and the Act, from the local activists to the Council’s Lesbian and Gay Unit.

Free, all materials provided.

See if you can spot the creatures carved on the beautiful Spurs Clock and create a clock picture with a mischievous mouse running up and down. At 2pm head to the galleries and join us as we wind the clock. 

This activity is suitable for ages 4 to 8 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Welcome to Saturday Beginners Draw!

Join artist-tutor Susan Bryan for the opportunity to explore technique, line and space.  Reconnect with your innate creativity in the historic, Grade I listed backdrop of Bruce Castle.

All art materials included within the ticket price.

Tickets are £15, pay on the day or book via Eventbrite.

For queries, please contact Susan on 07535 676276.

Free, all materials provided.

Learn how Bruce Castle was used to escape plague-ridden London and craft your own colony of furry rats.  

This activity is suitable for ages 6 to 10 years old. 

For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk