All Day

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.

ANCIENT CRAFTS- Must Farm Weekend Workshop

must farm Must Farm

Join us on a weekend workshop exploring the amazing archaeology found at Must Farm. On the two day workshop you'll cast your own late Bronze Age axe and wooden handle, and you'll work with tin, amber, oil shale and stone to create a replica of the stunning necklace. One of the most remarkable archaeological sites of the 21st century in the UK is undoubtedly Must Farm. The late Bronze Age settlement that stood on wooden piles above the fenland waterways nearly 3000 years ago only lasted a year before it collapsed after a huge fire ravaged the settlement. The site and excavation by Cambridge Archaeological Unit received huge attention from world media and were frequently featured on television documentaries as more stunning finds were made across the site.   We were delighted to have been asked by CAU to replicate some of the highlight finds which themselves featured in BBC articles and documentaries. We learned a great deal about the crafting skills that happened in the settlement, and we’ve put some of them together to make a Must Farm workshop weekend.

£300