Events and what's on in Dorchester

Enjoy this special tour for families in Dorset Museum’s Collections Discovery Centre. Find out what a curator does and how we look after our collections. Discover our Natural History collection including dinosaur footprints, prehistoric marine reptiles and birds and butterflies. Then enjoy a handling session in our Conservation Studio. Tours are limited, and booking online is essential due to the expected demand. 25 October Free with Museum entry. Booking essential. Meeting ...

Enjoy this special tour for families in Dorset Museum’s Collections Discovery Centre. Find out what a curator does and how we look after our collections. Discover our Natural History collection including dinosaur footprints, prehistoric marine reptiles and birds and butterflies. Then enjoy a handling session in our Conservation Studio. Tours are limited, and booking online is essential due to the expected demand. Free with Museum entry. Booking essential. Meeting point: ...

A brilliant and unique night out for any school of wizardry fan…. The evening begins with a serving of Butterbeer, a truly tasty beverage straight from the books. From there, things get even boozier with just a swish and a flick. Try your hand at mixing potions, whipped up in a cauldron. Using ingredients sourced from ancient magick textbooks, you’ll chop, grind, and mix up concoctions such as the Transfiguration Tonic, which you will then proceed to drink…. Practical magic, ...

Shire Hall will be full of scarily fun activities this half term! The witch is brewing a magic spell, It’s Halloween night and monsters dwell, Her pot is boiling and many spells she will weave, To cast them on all the children on Halloween eve. Throughout the half-term holidays, Shire Hall will become home to spooky family-friendly fun. We’ll have slippery slime-making workshops and a count the spiders trail. Come around our spooky underground cells at the most haunting time of the ...

A limited number of spaces at ever-popular event in Galton Perfect for a ghoulishly good family day out, Dobbies’ Halloween Spooktacular will get the whole family in the spooky spirit this October. Taking place from Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 October, families in Galton are in for a cackle. Dobbies’ Spooktacular event is a great way to get the kids trick or treat fix, where they can get stuck into terrifying treats before taking part in games and dancing. Children across Galton can ...

For Remembrance this year the Keep Military Museum is launching a Poppy Project. We're asking for visitors over the half term to help create felt poppies, which will be attached to netting and then draped over the front of our building, creating a stunning visual display that can be seen from across the town. To get involved, come to the museum over half term and visit our Poppy Stall, where you can make a felt poppy for free that will be included in the final tapestry. Each poppy can ...

The Dorset Museum Music Society are fortunate in being able to make use of the Victorian Hall of the Dorset Museum, a unique environment that continues to draw enthusiastic praise from our visiting artists. Acclaimed for their “gusto, comradeship and sharp attack” (The Times), the Barbican Quartet was formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has rapidly achieved recognition as an outstanding young ensemble, winning many awards. They made their Wigmore Hall début in 2017 and ...

During World War II, the all-girls St. Swithins school is evacuated from London to avoid the Blitz. Due to an administrative error, the female students and staff are relocated to the Nutborne Boys School, whose headmaster, Wetherby Pond, is alarmed. He and St. Swithins headmistress Muriel Whitchurch agree to keep their mixed-sex campus a secret to avoid disturbing the parents, but they find it hard to deceive visiting inspectors. Performed by Dorchester Drama this play will be at the ...