Free event

Activity Craft Heritage Our Year

About

Explore the stories of industrious women from Pontefract’s past in Pontefract Museum.


Discover a ground-breaking Georgian cookery writer and Victorian business owners. Learn about the 20th century women who powered the local liquorice factories.


Follow a fun trail around the museum in search of the objects that tell their stories. Try your hand at liquorice ‘thumping’. Get arty with colouring and crafting.


Venue opening hours

Monday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Tuesday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Wednesday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Thursday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Friday : 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday : 10:30 am - 4:30 pm

Sunday : Closed

    Access facilities

  • Accessible Toilet
  • Assistance Dogs Welcome
  • Baby Changing Facilities
  • Guide Dogs Welcome
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Venue Details

Find us at

5 Salter Row, Pontefract, WF8 1BA

Phone

01977722740

Email

museums@wakefield.gov.uk

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