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Lunchtime Lecture – Folk(lore) is a Feminist Issue with Lucy Wright
Artist and researcher, Lucy Wright has spent the last ten years exploring lesser-known and contemporary folk customs and traditions associated with women and other marginalised people.
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Horsing Around – A Sculpture Trail Around North Lincolnshire
Horsing Around, a sculpture trail around North Lincolnshire and Normanby Hall Country Park.
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The Hidden Valley
The story of the rediscovery of North Lincolnshire’s Anglo-Saxons in the Winterton Vale.
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Mo Ogg, The Bard of Coleby
Maurice “Mo” Ogg was a folk musician and a collector of folk music and traditions. In this exhibition we celebrate the great work Mo did for folk music and traditions.
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The Deyne School of Music
Documenting Northern Lincolnshire’s Local History volunteer, Andrew Holmes, looks at the history of music in Scunthorpe and the Deyne School of Music.
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Co-Production with the Museum Makers
Find out how Arts Council England funding has supported the Museum Makers programme.
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The YAG House
In 2019 North Lincolnshire Museum commissioned artist Tracy Satchwill to create a film using archive material from the Scunthorpe Youth Centre.
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Documenting Northern Lincolnshire’s History
National Lottery Heritage Fund project Documenting Northern Lincolnshire’s History.
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Documenting Northern Lincolnshire’s History Project
Share your memories relating to ‘Cycle Song’, a community opera performed at Brumby Hall in July 2012.
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Schools Programme
We are an award-winning museum learning team providing hands-on and engaging learning experiences for Early Years Foundation, Primary and Secondary school pupils.
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School and Community Loan Boxes
Explore objects and handle collections through an Arts and Heritage Learning Loan Box.
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The Life of Salim C. Wilson (Hatashil Masha Kathish)
A biography of Salim C. Wilson’s (Hatashil Masha Kathish) life, including his childhood in South Sudan, enslavement, freedom, missionary work and life in Scunthorpe by Archie Wood.
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The Black Evangelist of the North
Poet and performer, Tia Goffe, shares the life of Salim C. Wilson/Hatashil Masha Kathish through verse.
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Ten Years A Slave, Fifty Years A Preacher
A century after his marriage to a Scunthorpe woman, Salim Charles Wilson’s name is largely unremembered locally. Tim Davies takes a fresh look at an unjustly forgotten celebrity from the early twentieth century.
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Local History Galleries
Discover North Lincolnshire’s history from the early 1800s to the 1970s.
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