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Wellness Weekends: Clay Motifs Craft and Slow Looking at South Shields Museum

Name: Wellness Weekends: Clay Motifs Craft and Slow Looking at South Shields Museum
Start: 2026-10-24T10:20:00
End: 2026-10-24T15:00:00
Location: South Shields Museum and Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JA

A free half-term Saturday of drop-in clay crafts and a mindful Slow Looking session around Pierre Mignard's National Gallery portrait.

Saturday, 24 October 202610:20 AM - 3:00 PMSouth Shields Museum and Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JAFree (Slow Looking must be booked; craft is drop-in)by South Shields Museum and Art Gallery (North East Museums)

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About This Event

On the first Saturday of half term, the museum's drop-in Open Studio craft session (11.30am to 3pm in the learning room) is Clay Motifs, using clay and sequins to make sea life or a mythological creature inspired by Pierre Mignard's The Marquise de Seignelay, on loan from the National Gallery until 7 November. Families are welcome and no booking is needed. At 10.20am there is also a free 30-minute Slow Looking session in front of the painting, followed by sensory activities, with ten places that must be booked in advance.