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Museum opening times
10p a go. Sticker for all who complete the trail
Complete the challenges as you follow the trail both inside and outside the museum.
Museum Opening Times
Come and try out our family backpacks. Collect your backpack from the museum desk. Interactive crafts and games for the whole family.
Tuesday 27th July 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come along and find out more about our wonderful new children’s book called When Jimmy met Joey, and Joey met Jim. Take part in our fun craft activities linked to the museum’s fantastic new story book.
Thursday 29th July 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come and learn more about the animals found around the waterhole in Mackenzie Thorpe’s painting. Arts, crafts and weaving activities to take home.
Tuesday 3rd August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come and see Mackenzie Thorpe’s amazing picture of Uluru, and take part in our creative workshop looking at Aboriginal art and shapes found at Uluru.
Thursday 5th August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
A fun and messy workshop linked to the familiar shapes seen in Mackenzie Thorpe’s artwork.
Tuesday 10th August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come and find out more about the Aboriginal creation story called the dreamtime and take part in our banner workshop on a dreamtime theme.
Thursday 12th August 12pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
An afternoon of all things piratey. Hats, cutlasses, face painting and much more. Come dressed for the occasion.
Tuesday 17th August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come and be inspired by our Mackenzie Thorpe exhibition and create your own Mackenzie Thorpe style masterpiece.
Thursday 19th August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come and see how many bridges you can see in Mackenzie Thorpe’s ‘One Man’s Journey’ exhibition. Bring along some friends and helpers who can help you to design and build your own bridge using only the materials provided.
Each bridge will be tested to destruction at 2:45pm (approx).
The best-designed and built bridge will win a prize.
Tuesday 24th August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Come and see Mackenzie Thorpe’s picture of Captain Cook’s Monument which stands above the village of Great Ayton. Then design your own monument to Captain Cook out of clay to take home.
Thursday 26th August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
Didgeridoo player Kev Howard will be playing his didgeridoo as you decorate your own Aboriginal instrument.
Tuesday 31st August 1pm-3pm
Free Drop-in Event
An afternoon of Aussie fun. Aboriginal art, moving pictures, bush tucker trials and plenty more!
Any donations towards the costs of events will be greatly appreciated.
We regret that as these are family events we do not have the capacity to accommodate any childminding/organised groups. Please make a separate booking if you would like to bring along a group and we will do our best to accommodate you at another time.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
For further details about these events contact the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum on 01642 311211
We are offering FREE workshops for groups of 7 to 20 children this summer.
These 90 minute workshops can be adapted to suit the age of your group and will be on a Mackenzie Thorpe and Australia theme.
For bookings and further details please contact the museum’s Education team on 01642 515656.
March – October
Tues-Sun 10am-5.30pm
November – February
Tues-Sun 9am-4pm
(last admission to main displays 45 minutes before closing)
Closed:
Mondays,
23-26 & 28, 29-31 December, 1 January
and first full week
of January for annual maintenance.
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until 30th August 2010
One Man's Journey
Mackenzie Thorpe on Cook, Middlesbrough & Australia
AN exhibition of new paintings by well-known Middlesbrough-born artist Mackenzie
Thorpe. The exhibition
commemorates the 240th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first and only visit to
mainland Australia (April-August 1770). This is also the first major presentation of
Thorpe’s work in his home town. More Information...
From 2010
NOW ON 'PERMANENT DISPLAY'
Mana Waka (Spirit of the Canoe): Cook, Maori & the Haka
Marking the 240th anniversary of Cook’s first visit to New Zealand in 1769 and looking at Cook’s first encounter with the fearsome Maori warriors who challenged the visitors from their war canoes.
 
David Gross carving the hull (left), George Nuku assembling the stern post (right).
As part of this project, New Zealand Maori artist George Nuku and Seaham based artist David Gross, working with users of the Tramshed, Hartlepool, have carved a large waka taua (war canoe) for the collections. This forms the spectacular centre piece of the exhibition.
The waka takes shape
2010
Tataow!: Cook, Tahiti & Tattooing & Tattoos of the Tees Valley
On tour to Hartlepool Museum (Feb-April) & Head of Steam, Darlington (April-September)During his first visit to the Society Islands (Tahiti) in 1769 Cook and his crew experienced tattooing and became the first recorded European sailors to have tattoos.
When Captain Cook and his crew aboard HM Bark Endeavour first sailed to Tahiti in 1769, they discovered a sophisticated people with ornate skin decorations they called ‘tataow’. Some of the crew had tattoos as souvenirs of their visit, including Darlington-born Robert Stainsby, who was one of the first British sailors recorded as having these markings.
From that time the art of tattoo has proliferated around the globe, shipped from port to port by seafarers.
The legacy of Cook and Robert Stainsby can now be glimpsed in Tattoos of the Tees Valley, a portrait exhibition created for The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum by 'Wideyed' photographers Lucy Carolan, Richard Glynn and Sophie Ingleby.
In the course of their individual explorations, the photographers have discovered a thriving regional tattoo scene, with people wearing a variety of decorations ranging from bespoke designs through to traditional ‘flash’ art and historical Polynesian markings. Their portraits, and the stories behind each individual’s tattoos, offer an insight into the range of tattoos and their meanings.
The meanings tattoos embody are as varied as the individuals who wear them, from marking significant moments in life to the simple love of a design.
Tattoos of the Tees Valley presents a vivid portrait of the region’s contemporary tattoo culture.
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