Exhibitions and events
What’s on.
One changing exhibition at a time on the top floor, two a year, and something in the galleries most weekends. Exhibitions are included with entry.
Darned sock on a mushroom
Ada Merrin, 1940sMade to Mend, in the long caseCost new: the mushroom: fourpence
On now, top floor
Made to MendWhat a household fixed, and how many times
Four hundred repairs from one family’s house: riveted china, darned socks, boots soled four times, a teapot lid mended by two generations.
- When
- Until 1 March 2027
- Where
- The top-floor gallery
- Tickets
- Included with entry
Next, and before.
The top-floor gallery changes twice a year. Each exhibition starts from something we found in the house.
Coming next · From 3 April 2027The Good Room The front parlour, kept for best, 1952
The room nobody used: the Merrins’ front parlour as it was on the day of the Coronation party, with the china, the wireless and the antimacassars.
Past · 13 September 2025 to 1 March 2026Steel at Home What a Sheffield works made for the kitchen table
Table knives, carvers and forks from Tenter Lane, and the kitchens in Leeds, Hull and London they ended up in.
Past · 15 March to 31 August 2025Slate and Satchel Going to school from Tenter Lane, 1890 to 1964
Four generations of Merrin children at the board school up the hill: slates, satchels, reports and one note excusing Dorothy from games.
Talks, tours and a darning table.
Book at the front desk or by phone. Talks are in the reading room and hold forty people.
18:30
Why we mend
Imran on the four hundred repairs in Made to Mend, and the ones nobody could explain.
Talk£6
Book11:00
The kitchen, drawer by drawer
Forty minutes in the kitchen gallery with the curator. Meet at the range.
TourFree with entry
Book14:00
Darning with Nell
Bring a sock with a hole in it. Wool, needles and mushrooms provided.
Workshop£12
Book18:30
Steel at home
How a table knife from Tenter Lane reached half the kitchens in England.
Talk£6
Book11:00
Write a label
Children choose an object from home and write its museum label. Ages 6 to 11.
FamilyFree
Book