Gladstone pottery museum

Federation themed guided tours of four of the city’s historic towns will take place this month as part of the national Heritage Open Days programme. The tours, entitled ‘The Past Shaping the Future’, will take place around Burslem, Longton, Stoke and Hanley (City Centre). Each tour will tell visitors about key buildings and places that define the history of the towns as well as future plans for their regeneration.

During the summer holiday the city’s museums are providing plenty of activities to keep both children and adults entertained.

Stoke-on-Trent City Councillors are to be asked to support an application which would see the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and its collections of ceramics gain national accreditation. Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s cabinet will this month (23 June) be recommended to support the application which is to be made to the national Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).

Stoke-on-Trent Museums have children’s activities for your family to enjoy this half-term. At Gladstone Pottery Museum visitors can find out about Edwardian Toys and Games such as books of optical illusions and dolls and make a paper toy to take home. The drop-in activity takes place on Tuesday 1 June ,11am - 4pm and costs just 50p plus admission. At Ford Green Hall kids can put together a mask of Henry the Eighth or one of his six wives in Masks and Monarchs.

By pits n Pots Reporter Take historic tour of Longton from indoors Explore the historic buildings of Longton without venturing outside during an illustrated talk at the Gladstone Pottery Museum next month. The talk takes the form of an imagined walk starting with the Boundary Works on City Road and then going right across to the former TC Wild factory on Uttoxeter Road.

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. [caption id="attachment_1163" align="alignright" width="105" caption="Gladstone"][/caption] Gladstone Pottery Museum celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution this Thursday (August 20) with help from a family of mountain gorillas. The gorillas, which look and behave like real mountain gorillas, will accompany guests and an explorer around the museums’ exhibits.

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. [caption id="attachment_1163" align="alignleft" width="105" caption="Gladstone"][/caption] Gladstone Pottery Museum will be hosting its annual Classic Bus Day this Sunday (August 2). A number of vintage buses from the late 1940s will be available for passengers to travel across the city on. Passengers will be able to catch a bus from the museum’s car park which is being converted into a bus depot.