Family Events
Harrogate for Health and Happiness: A Spa Town in the 20th Century
OPENING EVENT, 21 JANUARY 2012
11am until 3pm
£1 entry for everyone
To celebrate our new exhibition, come along to join in children's craft activities – play games, make masks and hats.
Enjoy recently discovered film of the spa treatments and visitors taking the sulphur waters.
Take a short tour to see the sulphur wells
Discover the Turkish Baths history with the visiting expert.
The exhibition explores Harrogate’s twentieth century history through historical objects, fashion, film and photographs.
Find out about the spa treatments, the visitors, Harrogate during the world wars and how the town became a conference venue as the spa visitors declined.
Recreate our art!
Art workshop at the Mercer Art Gallery this half term
Wednesday 15th February, 1pm – 3.30pm
£1, drop in activity.
Help us recreate some of the works of art on show by completing a one section of the artwork and adding it to those completed by other visitors.
There will be a variety of materials to use including paints, chalks, pastels and crayons.
You can also join in our Olympic Celebration montage which we will build up throughout 2012.