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Poster for Animals in war Remembrance Service happening at The Devil's Porridge Museum on Monday 11th November 2024 at 11am. Please arrive for this event by 10.45am.

Animals in War Remembrance Service 2024

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Monday 11th November 2024

11am

Please arrive by 10:45am as the service will start promptly

The Devil’s Porridge Museum will be commemorating Remembrance Day by laying a wreath down at our memorial to animals in war.  We would like to invite everyone and their pets to the museum on Armistice Day, Monday 11th November 2024 to mark this event. 

We are proud to once again have some local schools attending this event with us.

This event will happen outside The Devil’s Porridge Museum. For anyone going inside The Devil’s Porridge Museum, please be advised that our usual admission prices and rules will apply.

Prior to this on Sunday 10th November 2024, we would like to invite our visitors to join us in a two minutes silence to mark Remembrance Sunday at 11am.

Representatives of The Devil’s Porridge Museum are  proud to be laying wreaths at Eastriggs and Dornock war memorial on Remembrance Sunday.
On Thursday 21st November 2024 at 2pm, Jeannie Rotherwell will present her historical fiction book 'Springside' at The Devil's Porridge Museum. To book please email education@devilsporridg.org.uk or call 01461 700021.

Talk from author, Jeannie Rotherwell

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Thursday 21st November 2024

2pm

Jeannie Rotherwell will be presenting her historical fiction book, ‘Springside’ at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.

‘Springside’ is fiction, based on the real experience of the author’s Grandfather during World War One and the diaries of Geoffrey Higson; a shift chemist at H.M. Factory Gretna. The lives of people living in Dornock in the past also feature in this historical fiction.

This talk will be free. Admission prices still apply for anyone who wants to look around The Devil’s Porridge Museum.

Copies of ‘Springside’ will be available to purchase at the talk.

To book please email education@devilsporridge.org.uk or you can call The Devil’s Porridge Museum on 01461 700021

 

Children's Christmas Party at The Devil's Porridge Museum will be happening on Thursday 5th December 2024 from 6.30pm to 8pm for 5 to 11 year olds. We do ask for a parent or guardian of any child under 6 years old to stay for the duration of the party. Booking is essential and places are limited. Tickets are £3 per child plus a booking fee. We are committed to keeping our activities as inclusive as possible. If you need financial support please contact: education@devilsporridge.org.uk or call 01461 700021 To book please go to The Devil's Porridge Museum's website.

Children’s Christmas Party 2024

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Thursday 5th December 2024

6.30pm – 8pm

Join us for party games, festive fun and to meet Santa at our Children’s Christmas Party!

This is for young people aged 5 – 11 years old.  We do ask for a parent / guardian of any child under 6 years old to stay for the duration of the party.

Parents and / or guardians are welcome to stay and watch this party (places only need to be booked for the young people attending). The parents and / or guardians will even have the opportunity to help the young attendees with a best dressed snowperson competition activity, if their feeling festive enough!

Places are limited and booking is essential.

Tickets cost £3 per child (plus a booking fee).*

*We are committed to keeping our activities as inclusive as possible. If you need financial support please contact: education@devilsporridge.org.uk or call 01461 700021

To book your place please click on the “book now” tab at the side of the screen or click on “book online” in our top navigation bar. You should find the ‘Children’s Christmas Party 2024’ event listed there.

A huge thank you to our funders the Hollywood Trust and The National Lottery Community Fund, Young Start for their support of this event.

Below are some photos from previous Children’s Christmas Parties held at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.

 

 

 

Four photos of The Devil's Porridge Museum inside and outside and working with items in the museum's collection. It reads "Heritage Careers Week 2024."

Heritage Careers Week 2024

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Heritage Careers Week is running from 28th October to 1st November 2024. It’s designed to showcase and celebrate the diverse selection of roles available in the industrial heritage sector.

There’s a variety of jobs in the heritage sector. To celebrate, Desray, one of our assistants, shares her experience of working The Devil’s Porridge Museum below.

We’re hoping to add another of our staff’s experience working in the creative and cultural industries to this blog post very soon!

When did you decide that you wanted to work within the Creative and Cultural Industries and what influenced that decision?

“I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do at all when I left school and I hadn’t really thought about working in the creative and culture industries, but when I saw the role for digitisation volunteers advertised online I thought it looked interesting. When I started volunteering I found it really engaging and felt like I was learning lots, which I guess was when I started thinking about it.”

What did your career path look like?

“When I started at The Devil’s Porridge Museum, I was volunteering as one of the digitisation volunteers. This involved helping to create digital records for the objects in The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s collection. About a year later, I started on front of house at and then started working on an SVQ in Museum and Galleries Practices while I was doing this. The SVQ was fascinating and I feel I learned at lot about caring for  The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s collections and more!

I was delighted to be offered a Digital Marketing Apprenticeship at The Devil’s Porridge Museum with Museum’s Galleries Scotland. I was working on the SVQ, Apprenticeship, and front of house in the museum at the same time, which gave me hands on experience and helped to grow my confidence. You can read more about my time as a Digital Marketing Apprentice on Museum Galleries Scotland’s website by clicking here>

After I finished my apprenticeship and then, later my SVQ in 2022, I was thrilled to be offered a job at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.

Currently, I’m an Museum Assistant at The Devil’s Porridge Museum. I’m hugely grateful for the support of all those at The Devil’s Porridge Museum and everyone I’ve worked with who have hugely helped me build my confidence and learn!”

Describe a typical day in your working life?

“There’s a variety of things I do, which makes every day different and interesting! Sometimes I can be on front of house in The Devil’s Porridge Museum, welcoming visitors and taking payments or taking orders and serving tables in The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Café (you don’t have go in our museum to visit our Café by the way). At other times I can be scheduling content for The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s social media, replying to Google reviews, creating blog posts and analysing the performance of The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s social media content – I think the latter is something people often overlook in digital marketing, but I find it vital to make sure campaigns are working and establish ways they can improve in the future! I also find digging into the data helps me come up with new ideas, which is something you need to keep social media content engaging!

I’m also proud to be on The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Youth Council, which can be interesting.”

What advice would you give someone interested in working in the industrial heritage sector?

“Volunteer. It’s a great place to start and can hugely help to build your confidence, even if you don’t know what you want to do. It can also give you experience of different roles within the creative and culture sector; helping you find what you’re interested and what your not so interested in.”

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

“The variety and the people! It’s nice to always have something different to do and everyone is very friendly at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.”

 

If you would be interested in gaining experience in the cultural heritage sector, why not take a look at our Museum Mentorship Programme? This is for 16 to 24 years old and provides hands on experience with support, guidance and training from an mentor! Find out more about the Museum Mentorship Programme by clicking here>

Monthly Roundup for 16th September to 20th October 2024. There is a photo of a pumpkin growing in our Dig For Victory Garden, living history re-enactors the Time Bandits and the museum's Arts and Crafts Club.

Monthly Roundup 16th September to 20th October 2024

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Monday 16th September

Brilliant to have our Arts and Crafts club back in The Devil’s Porridge Museum today. If you know a young person who would like to come along, you can find out how to book here>

Saturday 21st September

This week gardening club built an insect house and helped harvest some fresh vegetables from the garden. Did you know we use some of the food grown in our Dig for Victory garden in the Café? We’ve also been selling some homegrown apples and potatoes to our visitors!

Below are two photos from gardening club. A huge thank you to Wendy and the gardening club!

Monday 23rd September

Cordite Club was painting autumnal decorations this week. Our next Cordite Club will be a spook-tacluar Halloween celebration on 28th October 2024. Learn more about Cordite Club by clicking here>

Arts and Crafts club was also on again today. It was brilliant to see the young people who come along being so creative! If you would like to find out more about Arts and Crafts club click here>

Take a look at some photos from Arts and Crafts club below.

Tuesday 24th September

Excellent to have two small group visits with us at The Devil’s Porridge Museum today.  Please be aware that you do have to book group visits in advance and you can learn how by clicking here>

Saturday 28th September

Gardening Club was on again today.

Below are some photos of some pumpkins growing in The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Dig For Victory. Don’t they look good?

Sunday 29th September

Today we had another group visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum today. Please remember it is essential to book your group visit and any found you would like in advance. Find out more and how to book your group visit by clicking here>

Monday 30th September

We were delighted to have a school visit come to The Devil’s Porridge Museum today.  Wondering what we offer as part of a school visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum? You can find out this and more by heading to our school visit page by clicking here>

Arts and Crafts club was on today. Lovely to see the young people crafting!

Saturday 5th October

Saturday’s mean Arts and Crafts club in The Devil’s Porridge Museum. It’s brilliant to see all their hard work paying off with the food growing in our Dig for Victory Garden!

Monday 7th October

Another group came to visit The Devil’s Porridge Museum today. It was lovely to have them. Please click here to find out more about group visits>

Our term time arts and crafts club was on again today. A huge thank you to Wendy and all the young people who come along to this, as always. Arts and Crafts club will be back again after October half term. Learn more about arts and crafts club by clicking here>

Wednesday 16th October

We were delighted to welcome the Time Bandits to The Devil’s Porridge Museum today for the first of our October half term activities. They had a selection of amazing original and replica World War One artefacts on display and were walking around the museum sharing dark tales from the trenches. It’s always brilliant to have The Time Bandits at The Devil’s Porridge Museum!

A huge thank you to them and everyone who came along to see them! It was brilliant to have so many people come along to see the Time Bandits at the museum.

Take a look at some photos of this below.

Thursday 17th October

We had two group visits to The Devil’s Porridge Museum today and it was brilliant to have them! If you would like to plan a group visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum, find all you need to know by clicking here>

 

And that’s the end of this This Month’s Monthly Roundup. Our next Roundup will be in November, so be sure to look out for it and why not travel back in time and check out last month’s Monthly Roundup in the meantime? You can do this by clicking here>

We have a range of October half-term activities coming up. From a family friendly spooky storytelling session with Mostly Ghostly to a Children’s Halloween party, there’s lots to look forward to. Be sure to check out our events page here>

Poster for Crafted in Conflict Trench Art exhibition to be held at The Devil's Porridge Museum. This exhibition is coming soon.

Crafted in Conflict

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We’re delighted to introduce our Crafted in Conflict: Trench Art from the Front Lines and Beyond Exhibition.

Trench Art is often associated with the First World War, but it also applies to items produced in earlier and later wars. In fact Trench Art refers to a diverse range of decorative and functional item created during or shortly after times of conflict. Despite, the name not all of it was created literally in the trenches with some being made by civilians, prisoners of war and more.

This exhibition hopes to help dispel some of the commonly believed myths about Trench Art.

You will be able to learn more about Trench Art from this exhibition and see some examples from The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s collection that are not normally on display.

Visitors can enjoy this exhibition as part of their visit into The Devil’s Porridge Museum. Normal admission prices and opening hours to The Devil’s Porridge Museum do apply. Find our admission prices and opening hours here>

Crafted in Conflict will be at The Devil’s Porridge Museum until 28th February 2025.

 

Poster for Time Bandits in The Devil's Porridge Museum on Wednesday 16th October 2024. Admission into The Devil's Porridge is required to see the Time Bandits in the museum.

Time Bandits at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.

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Wednesday 16th October 2024

We’re delighted to welcome living history reenactors The Time bandits back to The Devil’s Porridge Museum!

The Time Bandits’ handling collection of original and replica WW1 artefacts will be in The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Education Room all day, starting from 11am. You will also be able to hear dark tales from the trenches as WW1 soldiers wander the museum galleries.

It promises to be brilliant and very informative so be sure to come along and see the Time Bandits in person!

Admission into The Devil’s Porridge Museum is required visit the Time Bandits in this drop-in activity.

The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s usual Wednesday opening hours apply (10am to 5pm with last entry 45 minutes before closing).

Below are some photos of The Time Bandits.

A collage of photos of The Devil's Porridge Museum's Cordite Club and a board game. The words "Monthly Roundup 19th August to 15th September 2024" also feature.

Monthly Roundup 19th August to 15th September 2024

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This Monthly Roundup sees the return of Cordite Club and Arts and Crafts club! Read on to find out more in our Monthly Roundup 19th August to 15th September 2024.

Monday 19th August.

Brilliant to have had a group visit join us at The Devil’s Porridge Museum today. They also had a chance to visit the Scotia Crafters who sell a beautiful selection of homemade crafts, gifts and more.

Please be aware that it is necessary to book any group visits in advance. Learn more about group visits by clicking here>

Tuesday 20th August

Today it was fantastic to have another group visit at The Devil’s Museum today, who also had chance to enjoy the Scotia Crafters exhibition.

If you would be interested in learning more about group visits please click here>

Monday 26th August

On Monday 26th August we had another group visit The Devil’s Porridge Museum. It was lovely to have them come for a visit!

Just a quick reminder that group visits and any catering you would like for your group needs to be booked in advance. As always you can find out more about group visits here>

Sunday 1st September

Today marked the last day of the Scotia Crafters in The Devil’s Porridge Museum. It was brilliant to have had them back with us again this year with all their beautiful, handmade items, gifts and crafts! We hope to see them again at The Devil’s Porridge Museum next year!

Below are some photos of the Scotia Crafters exhibition from this year.

Monday 2nd September

It was lovely to have another group visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum again today. Find out more about group visits by clicking here>

Monday 9th September

It was exciting to have some of our regular activities return after the summer holidays today!

First we had the return on our Cordite Club for local retirees. It was excellent to have them back and this week they were playing the board game ‘Crazy Case.’ If you are interested in finding out more about our Cordite Club, click here>

Below are some photos of Cordite Club.

The afternoon saw the return of Arts and Crafts club! A huge thank you to Wendy and everyone helps to make this possible. Another thank you to the young people who come along. Find out more about Arts and Crafts club here>

 

And that’s it for this edition of the Monthly Roundup! If you fancy traveling back to last Month’s Roundup you can by clicking here>  

Have you heard about our youth mentorship programme? It offers unique opportunities to help build young people’s CV, experience and confidence with a professional mentor to support you. Find out more and how to get involved by clicking here> 

Children's Halloween Party 2024 Poster. This event is happening at 6.30pm to 8pm on Thursday 24th October 2024. It is now fully booked.

FULLY BOOKED: Children’s Halloween Party 2024

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This event is now FULLY BOOKED. To avoid disappointment please do not bring children that have not booked into this activity. Thank you for your understanding. 

Thursday 24th October 2024

6.30pm to 8pm

6 to 12 year olds

Join us for our spook-tacular Children’s Halloween Party 2024 at The Devil’s Porridge Museum!

Be sure to come in your Halloween costume, as there will be a Best Halloween Costume Competition for the young attendees!

Parents and / or guardians are welcome to stay and watch this party (places only need to be booked for the young people attending). The parents and / or guardians will even have the opportunity to help the young attendees with a best dressed Mummy / Daddy competition activity, if they’re brave enough…

Please be aware there may be some flashing lights at this party.

Booking is essential and places are limited. 

Tickets are £3 per child (plus a booking fee)*.

To book your place please press the book now button on the right of this page and select the workshop you would like to book.

*We are committed to keeping our activities as inclusive as possible. If you need financial support please contact:

education@devilsporridge.org.uk 

or call 01461 700021

 

We are also delighted to be working with Mostly Ghostly to host two exciting events for young people on Monday 21st October 2024, which you can learn more about by clicking here>

A huge thank you to our funders The Holywood Trust and Young Start, The National Lottery Fund for their support of our Halloween activities for 2024.

Below are some photos from last year’s Children’s Halloween Party. We hope to have more treats and fun this year!

Poster for two events for young people with Mostly Ghostly happening on Monday 21st October 2024. The first of these events "A Haunting Halloween at H.M. Factory Gretna" is aimed at 7 to 11 year olds. The second "Teens Event - Mostly Ghostly Presents... The Dark Side of H.M. Gretna" is for 11 to 15 year olds. Booking is essential. Tickets are £3 per young person plus a booking fee.

Mostly Ghostly at The Devil’s Porridge Museum 2024

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We’re delighted to be working with Mostly Ghostly to present the following two events for young people at The Devil’s Porridge Museum as part of our Halloween activities for 2024.

A Haunting Halloween at H.M. Factory Gretna

A group of people called, Mostly Ghostly stood outside the Old Bridge House.

 

Monday 21st October 2024

10am to 12pm

7 to 11 year olds.

The Devil’s Porridge Museum is delighted to be working with Mostly Ghostly to present a Halloween event aimed at children, aged 7 to 11 years old, and their families. This will be an interactive spooky storytelling session with a hint of horrid history!

Young participants will have the opportunity to create their own artwork and stories to share with the group.

Our event aims to be educational and entertaining, and will feature themes of horrid history and hauntings.

Please be aware that places only need to be booked for the young people attending this workshop, but their family is welcome to stay for the duration of this event.

Booking is essential and places are limited. 

Tickets are £3 per child (plus a booking fee)*.

To book your place please press the book now button on the right of this page and select the workshop you would like to book.

*We are committed to keeping our activities as inclusive as possible. If you need financial support please contact:

education@devilsporridge.org.uk 

or call 01461 700021

 

Teens Event – Mostly Ghostly Presents… The Dark Side of H.M. Gretna

A group of people, called Mostly Ghostly, outside in some woodland.

Monday 21st October 2024

1pm to 3pm

11 to 15 year olds.

This will be an interactive storytelling session exploring the darker side of H.M. Gretna…

Discover the daily dangers faced by factory workers, enter the hidden world of the evacuee and hear the tragic story of Britain’s worst rail disaster…

Mostly Ghostly will also share some haunting tales from the surrounding areas.

Young participants will have the opportunity to view and handle objects connected with key historical events and share their views on these thought-provoking stories.

Our event aims to be educational and entertaining, and will feature themes of horrid history and hauntings.

Booking is essential and places are limited. 

Tickets are £1 per 11 to 15 year old (plus a booking fee)*.

To book your place please press the book now button on the right of this page and select the workshop you would like to book.

*We are committed to keeping our activities as inclusive as possible. If you need financial support please contact:

education@devilsporridge.org.uk 

or call 01461 700021

 

The Devil’s Porridge Museum will also be hosting a Children’s Halloween Party  on Thursday 24th October 2024 which you can learn more about by clicking here>

A huge thank you to our funders The Holywood Trust and Young Start, The National Lottery Fund for their support of our Halloween activities for 2024.

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