Discovery Nights: Going Underground
Schedule
Fri Oct 10 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Discovery Museum | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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£10 per ticket + booking fee. Over 18s only. Friday 10 October, 6-9pm.October’s Discovery Nights, the after-hours events for adults, is back!
This time it's 'Going Underground' - inspired by our region’s mining heritage and highlights folk traditions like 'proggy' mat making, grassroots activism and even ghost stories.
With historical object handling, history talks and a chance to meet one of the region’s most beloved artists Bob Olley and ask him about his time underground as a miner, you can stroll through the museum dipping in and out of activities, enjoy the museum at night and kick back.
With hands-on crafts, activities, talks, historical objects and archives, bar and food.
Featuring
✍️ Poetry workshops with writer Stephanie Lyttle inspired by material from Tyne & Wear Archives
👻 Coal age inspired ghost stories with The Moss Troopers
🖌️ Artist Bob Olley will share anecdotes of his time underground as a coal miner in the 20c
💡 Historian Henrietta Heald will give bite-size talks on Charles Parsons and Lord Armstrong
🚂 The Amateur Ancestor, Justine Boussard, as she shares a short story of Story of The Whale and the Steam Engine
❗ Make your own protest badge
🧵 Proggy mat making
🍷 🍕 Open bar and food
Part of the Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution adult event programme.
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Where is it happening?
Discovery Museum, Blandford Square,Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
