Open Wednesday – Sunday
(and bank holidays)
10:30am – 5pm
The museum will be closed from Sunday 24 December 2023 – Friday 5 January 2024.
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft mark ten years since our major redevelopment with an exhibition about the museum's co-founder Hilary Bourne (1909 – 2004) and Barbara Allen (1903 – 1972), her partner in life and work. The pair ran an internationally successful textile studio, designing and making a variety of fabrics – tweed for […]
Drawn to the Light (نور) is a new textile-based commission by Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings. Lanterns and pathways of personal symbols will lead visitors into Mudawi-Rowling's installation, which explores the artist’s intersectional experience as a Black Deaf Sudanese artist.
A free and friendly get-together for adults in an inspiring environment!
Children aged 6 – 12 are invited to come along to our Christmas holiday workshop, where we’ll be exploring some of the museum’s core crafts.
Fun, hands-on creative sessions for the mini-visitor and their adult. Packed full of sticking, drawing, storytelling, and object discovery.
A free and friendly get-together for adults in an inspiring environment!
Try something new in 2024 with an inspiring half day workshop for beginners on the art of lino printing.
About the Workshop Hilary Bourne was inspired to learn weaving after seeing indigo dyeing and cotton weaving in Palestine and first set up a studio in Jerusalem. This workshop offers the opportunity to learn this traditional skill under the expert tutelage of Poppy Fuller Abbott, a contemporary weaver and TOAST New Maker whose work appears […]
In this workshop, you will explore wet felting methods, including resist techniques, to create a sample and then a larger wall hanging.
Children aged 6 – 12 are invited to come along to our half term workshop, where we’ll be exploring some of the museum’s core crafts.
Fun, hands-on creative sessions for the mini-visitor and their adult. Packed full of sticking, drawing, storytelling, and object discovery.
This day long workshop will focus on the use of patterns and colours in lino printing.
A free and friendly get-together for adults in an inspiring environment!
Alyosha Stone leads this 2-day workshop, offering a comprehensive introduction to the ancient skill of stone carving.
Join our free BSL tour for a special insight into Double Weave: Bourne and Allen's Modernist Textiles and Drawn to the Light (نور) by Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings.
This intensive four-day course concentrates on the fundamentals of natural dyeing, showing you how and where to get started, which plants make good dyes and how to create a range of tones using colour modifiers to get great results.
Fun, hands-on creative sessions for the mini-visitor and their adult. Packed full of sticking, drawing, storytelling, and object discovery.
A free and friendly get-together for adults in an inspiring environment!
Children aged 6 – 12 are invited to come along to our Easter craft session, where we’ll be exploring some of the museum’s core crafts.
Children aged 6 – 12 are invited to come along to our Easter craft session, where we’ll be exploring some of the museum’s core crafts.
Fun, hands-on creative sessions for the mini-visitor and their adult. Packed full of sticking, drawing, storytelling, and object discovery.
A Bernard Leach pot from the museum’s collection is the subject of a unique hand embroidery composition, created by textile designer Leah Nikolaou especially for this workshop.
This Ditchling workshop is taught by master calligrapher Ewan Clayton, who was once a member of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic based in Ditchling.
This Ditchling workshop is taught by printmaker and experienced teacher Helen Brown. Helen will expertly guide you through the woodcut process from design, transfer, cutting, inking and printing.
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Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Lodge Hill Lane, Ditchling, East Sussex, BN6 8SP.
Tel: 01273 844744
Email: enquiries@ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.uk
