What's on

Showcasing Calderdale Museums’ fashion and textile collections from ancient Egypt to modern day. Calderdale Museums has one of the best but little known textile collections in the country.

An exhibition capturing a century of Brighouse, West Yorkshire on canvas and camera. A selection of images from this exhibition are now ONLINE HERE as an online version during closures.

Photography capturing the places and people of Calderdale, including collections by Martin Parr and Fay Godwin, displayed in The Link Gallery at Bankfield Museum.

An exhibition celebrating the costumes of some of Britain’s best loved TV dramas including Downton Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Poldark, Victoria and many more. Alongside a new display of historic costumes from similar periods in the Fashion Gallery.

For Anne Lister's 229th birthday on the 3rd April 2020, with Shibden closed, birthday celebrations postponed, and many people throughout the world remaining at home, we wanted to share her diary entries from her journals 1818 to 1840. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ONLINE PAGES The pages were scanned by Townsweb Archives in 2018 in conjunction with West Yorkshire Archives who house them.

A new ONLINE exhibition of artists and their travels, including Samuel Prout, Albert Goodwin and John Ruskin. Click here to see our online version of The Grand Tour, which was was planned for Smith Art Gallery this summer but has been postponed.

To commemorate VE Day 2020, CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR ONLINE EXHIBITION made using several objects from Calderdale Museums Service collection to tell the story of the war. The exhibition has been created by John Spencer, Military Curator for Calderdale Museums and there are also several family activities to try, compiled by our Education Officer, Fiona.

An online version of our current 'A Town Through Time' exhibition at Smith Art Gallery in Brighouse.  CLICK HERE to see highlights from the exhibition and more about the history of Brighouse.  Both exhibitions have been created by Katie McAdam, from the Collections Team for Calderdale Museums, working with the Halifax Photographic Society. Follow @BankfieldMuseum on social media to see some of the images and find out about our next online exhibition.

An online version of our current 'Photographic Memories' exhibition at Bankfield Museum. CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR ONLINE EXHIBITION to explore the history of photography and the story of our love for photos- from the first permanent image made in 1826, to the estimated 14 trillion we take each year across the world today.

A new online exhibition exploring the history of Mackintosh toffee, Quality Street and how Halifax became 'Toffee Town'. CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR ONLINE EXHIBITION featuring photographs and objects from Calderdale Museums’ collection to tell the story of Toffee Town.  The exhibition has been created by Katie McAdam from the Museum's Collections Team and related family activities have been created by our Education Officer, Fiona.

UPDATE May 2020- We still hope to run this event in September and will observe the Government guidelines in place at that time. We are able to facilitate social distancing at Bankfield and we will update ticket holders nearer the date with relevant information.

Shibden Hall is 600 years old! The first reference to Shibden Hall was in 1420/21 so in 2020 we will be conducting more research into its past and gathering stories about the Hall's 600 years, with various families in occupation and nearly 100 years as a public museum. During 2021 there will be exhibitions at Shibden Hall and at Bankfield Museum (as there is limited space at Shibden) to celebrate the Hall's history and all the people that have lived and worked there over the centuries.  Sign up to our enews to hear about our Shibden 600 creative projects during 2020 and 2021.