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Ice Age Art Now Exhibition

cliffe castle museum Cliffe Castle Museum, Spring Gardens Lane,, Keighley

Travel back in time and encounter works of art dating back thousands of years. This visually stunning exhibition shows how artistic creativity existed thousands of years before traditional art histories suggest – as an essential part of human life. Ice Age Art Now presents work by people living in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age, some as much as 24,000 years old. These astounding works reveal the deep roots of drawing, sculpture, realism, abstraction, signs, symbols and more – and the extraordinary skill and imagination of these early image makers find echoes in modern and contemporary art. This family-friendly exhibition features a wealth of rare items from the British Museum, and local treasures from the collections of Bradford District Museums & Galleries, arranged into such themes as decorating the body, drawing animals and abstracting the female form. The exhibition also features an installation reimagining cave art and other imagery from thousands of years ago for the 21st century. The exhibition will be supplemented with a programme of talks, family activities and other special events. A Partnership Exhibition with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and Bradford District Museums & Galleries.

Ongoing

Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation Online Workshop

Factum Foundation, within the framework of the ARCHiVe Online Academy (AOA), is pleased to announce a free online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This intensive programme is specially designed for students passionate about cultural preservation and wish to enhance their skills in leveraging state-of-the-art digital technologies to reconstruct heritage sites and artefacts through photogrammetry. Throughout the course, participants will learn about image capture and post-processing to create high-resolution 3D models. Students will also learn how to produce CAD drawings derived from these models, along with tips on sharing results online for collaboration and archiving purposes. The course is limited to 15 participants to ensure a more focused and dynamic learning experience. Registration is open to university students in the fields of Archaeology, Heritage Conservation, Heritage Studies, and Museum Studies from Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian countries. Please refer to this summary sheet for full eligibility and course details: https://lnkd.in/da7aNV6D Register online here: https://lnkd.in/dTFagDyh

Bamburgh Castle Excavation 2025

A multi-period excavation by the Bamburgh Research Project, open to volunteers. Focuses on Anglo-Saxon and medieval remains in the West Ward and Inner Ward. Cost: Approx. £300/week (excludes accommodation).

Copper Smelting & Axe Casting Weekend

Ludham Ludham, Great Yarmouth

The extraction of metal from ore was a huge technological step in the human timeline, but how was it done? How did people recognise the right rock? And how was it used to make tools?    You can find out on our copper smelting weekend with Dr. James Dilley, who over two days will guide you through the steps of processing ore and smelting it in a furnace exactly as people did in the Bronze Age thousands of years ago. The weekend will start with an introductory talk exploring the geology, science and archaeology behind smelting and how people might have developed the method in prehistory.    As a team, you’ll then work at different stations to crush and sort copper ore, bellow at the furnaces to reach 1000℃, pour in the crushed ore to produce stunning green flames and remove the crucible to pour out liquid copper!   The aim of the first day will be to create enough copper to make axes on Sunday. For these, you’ll make a mould for your axe, cast it yourself and then begin the process of cleaning and decorating the surface using Bronze Age tools.

Lindisfarne Excavation 2025

The final year of DigVentures’ crowdfunded dig at the early medieval monastery raided by Vikings in AD 793. Open to volunteers, uncovering runic namestones and burials. Cost: From £250/week.