Discovery Nights: Unplugged

Friday 18 July 2025
6.00pm to 9.00pm
North East Museums
East Newcastle

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An after-hours event at Discovery Museum. Ditch your phone and enjoy a chilled-out evening of mindful activities in a digital detox featuring mini meditations, book swaps, crafting with nature, object sketching, quizzes, storytelling, a chance to see new acquisitions at Tyne & Wear Archives – and a bar.

Featuring

  • New archive material on show in Tyne & Wear Archives
  • Mini meditations with Jodie from Breathe
  • Second Chance Book Exchange – give your books a second life at our cosy book swap
  • Play Retro board games – fancy a round of Buckaroo, Connect 4, or Dominoes?
  • The Amateur Ancestor, Justine Boussard, as she shares a short story of the journey through time and place of a tiny seed.
  • Pub-style quiz with comedian Si Beckwith
  • Self-led sketching – sit and draw an historic item of clothing
  • Try your hand at embroidery
  • Mindful crafting with Nature Makers to make your own Mindful Mandala using locally collected sea glass.

Part of the Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution adult event programme.

Cost: £10

Contact details

Organisation: North East Museums

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Website: northeastmuseums.org.uk

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Tel: 0191 232 6789

Tel: 0191 232 6789

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Last Updated: June 9, 2025