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🎃👻 Halloween Street is coming to Preston Park Museum this October half term! 👻🎃Step onto our cobbled Victorian Street, t...
14/10/2026

🎃👻 Halloween Street is coming to Preston Park Museum this October half term! 👻🎃

Step onto our cobbled Victorian Street, transformed with pumpkins 🎃, autumn colour 🍂 and a sprinkle of Halloween magic ✨

There's a packed programme of family fun to enjoy, including:

📚 Meet author Tracey Morgan and Sparky the Barn Owl
🦉 Birds of Prey with Whitby Falconers
🎓 Ghoul School and disco
🎨 Spooky crafts
🏴‍☠️ Storytelling with Captain Raggy Beard
✨Magical Creatures Museum Trail

📅 Some activities require advance booking.

🔗 Visit our website to find out more and plan your spooky day out! 🎃🍂👻https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/article/22416/Halloween-Street

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Final day tomorrow (Thursday 15 October)!Don't miss your last chance to see Matisse: Drawing with Scissors before it clo...
14/10/2026

Final day tomorrow (Thursday 15 October)!
Don't miss your last chance to see Matisse: Drawing with Scissors before it closes at Preston Park Museum.

🖼️Featuring over 30 striking, lithographic prints of his famous works, including The Snail and the Blue Nudes.

🎨 Explore the exhibition, discover the rest of the museum and treat yourself to coffee and cake in The Spence Café ☕🍰✨

🎟️ Entry included with an annual or day Museum Pass

13/10/2026

Look what’s just arrived in the museum gift shop 🍁👻 New autumn stock!

Our favourites are the new ghost night light, the pumpkin jigsaw and the soft toy owls! The tea lights also smell amazing!

Last chance to see Matisse: Drawing with Scissors!✂️ Don’t miss your opportunity to experience this colourful exhibition...
13/10/2026

Last chance to see Matisse: Drawing with Scissors!✂️

Don’t miss your opportunity to experience this colourful exhibition before it closes on Thursday 15 October.

We couldn’t resist sharing these cute photos of some of our littlest visitors who explored the exhibition over the weekend ❤️

It has been lovely to see visitors of all ages inspired by Matisse’s bold shapes and vibrant colours!

🗓️ closing date: Thursday 15 October
📍Preston Park Museum
🎟️ entry included with your Museum Pass

12/10/2026

⚽🔵 Middlesbrough FC celebrated their 150 anniversary at the weekend thanks to Will Lankshear's seventh league goal of the season and Tommy Conway provided the assist.

✨ The duo joined us recently at Preston Park Museum to launch their limited-edition 150 kit. Good luck for the rest of the season!

⚽🖤 A powerful exhibition celebrating Middlesbrough FC's first 11 Black footballers is now on display at Preston Park Mus...
09/10/2026

⚽🖤 A powerful exhibition celebrating Middlesbrough FC's first 11 Black footballers is now on display at Preston Park Museum.

Marking Black History Month and the 30th anniversary of Show Racism the Red Card, the First 11 Black Players Exhibition: Middlesbrough FC shines a spotlight on the pioneering players who helped shape the club's history.

Featuring eleven banners, the pop-up exhibition explores each player's contribution to Middlesbrough FC while celebrating their cultural heritage, personal journey and lasting legacy.

📍 Preston Park Museum
📅 On display until the 1 November

🎟️Entry is included with your Museum Pass

Middlesbrough FC Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

✨ A spectacular new immersive light installation 'Submergence' is coming to Preston Park Museum this October! ✨Step into...
09/10/2026

✨ A spectacular new immersive light installation 'Submergence' is coming to Preston Park Museum this October! ✨

Step into Submergence and lose yourself in a stunning world of light, colour and sound. The perfect escape as the darker evenings draw in, opening just in time for the October half-term holidays.

💡 Celebrating Stockton-born inventor John Walker and his invention of the friction match, this mesmerising walkthrough installation invites visitors to experience light in a whole new way.

🌟 Created by internationally renowned artists Squidsoup, Submergence surrounds you with ever-changing patterns that flow, shift and transform as you explore.

📅 Opens Friday 23 October 2026 📍 Preston Park Museum
🎟️ Entry is included with a day or annual Museum Pass
Find out more and plan your visit https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/article/22586/New-immersive-light-installation-Submergence-to-open-this-October

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council squidsoup

🐍🦎 They’re back! 🕷️🐢Following their popular summer visit, Animal Story returns to Preston Park Museum on Saturday 17 Oct...
07/10/2026

🐍🦎 They’re back! 🕷️🐢

Following their popular summer visit, Animal Story returns to Preston Park Museum on Saturday 17 October with another exciting chance to get up close to some amazing animals, including:
🐍 Snakes
🦎 Lizards
🕷️ Tarantulas
🦂 Scorpions
🌿 Giant stick insects
🪳 Madagascan hissing cockroaches
🐛 Goliath tree millipedes
🐸 White’s tree frogs
🦎 Salamanders
🐢 red-footed and Indian star tortoises
🪲 Sun beetles
🦔 Tenrecs
🐌 Giant African land snails

📅 Saturday 17 October, 10am to 3pm
🎟️ Entry is included with your Museum Pass
If you don't already have a pass, please buy yours online before visiting

Find out more here https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/article/21789/Animal-Story

🦉📖 Meet Sparky the Barn Owl and hear her remarkable story!This half term, join local author Tracey Iceton for a fascinat...
06/10/2026

🦉📖 Meet Sparky the Barn Owl and hear her remarkable story!
This half term, join local author Tracey Iceton for a fascinating talk about her new book, Sparky: My Barn Owl Story.
📖 Enjoy a reading from the book and discover the inspiring story of how Tracey and Sparky first met
🦉 Meet Sparky in person and watch a mini flying display (weather permitting).
✍️ After the talk, you'll have the opportunity to buy a copy of the book and have it signed by the author.
👧 Recommended for children aged 9+.
🤫 To help Sparky feel comfortable and relaxed, we ask that audience members remain seated and keep noise to a minimum throughout the event.
📅 Date: Saturday 24 October at 11.30am
🎟️ Tickets are £5 and must be pre-booked online. Each member of your group will need a Museum Pass.
Book your ticket here https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/article/22552/Sparky-My-Barn-Owl-Story

🌰 It’s officially conker season in the park and there are so many of them around at the moment!A few of us in the office...
03/10/2026

🌰 It’s officially conker season in the park and there are so many of them around at the moment!

A few of us in the office swear by the old tale that keeping conkers on your windowsill helps stop spiders coming into the house. 🕷️

Let us know if you've tried it and whether it actually worked!

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Preston Park, Yarm Road
Stockton-on-Tees
TS183RJ

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