What's on

This exhibition is currently closed until further notice. Showcasing Calderdale Museums’ fashion and textile collections from ancient Egypt to modern day.

This exhibition is currently closed until further notice. A selection of images from this exhibition are now ONLINE HERE as an online version during closures.

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.

Join us on The Grand Tour, as we visit some of Europe’s most famous landscapes through paintings in our collection.This exhibition was originally planned for Smith Art Gallery summer 2020 but has been postponed. The full exhibition will showcase 33 original artworks and will be open to the public at a later date.

This online exhibition has been created to commemorate Victory in Europe Day 2020 (VE Day). John Spencer, Military Curator for Calderdale Museums has curated this exhibition using several objects from the Museums collection.

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.

Taking highlights from our current Photographic Memories exhibition at Bankfield Museum, this online exhibit takes you on a journey through the history of photography. Using images from our collection, we will tell 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.

To commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo on the 18th June 1815, CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR ONLINE EXHIBITION created by John Spencer, Military Curator for Calderdale Museums using stories and objects from Calderdale Museums and the Duke of Wellington's Regimental Museum. There are also several family activities to try, compiled by our Education Officer, Fiona.

Shibden Hall has 15 unique oil paintings, that are mostly portraits, on permanent display; some have been on site for centuries. We have lots of information on these paintings but would love to find out more.

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.