Hands On Heritage Day 2025

Hands On Heritage Day returns to Mansfield Central Library this May, bringing a variety of fun and free activities for all the family!

This year Inspire are getting interactive with Virtual Reality experiences supported by the BFI and National Lottery. Plus Nottinghamshire Archives will be offering augmented reality activities, a new interactive map of Nottingham, and the opportunity to digitise your own photographs!

To commemorate 80 years since VE Day, stallholders will be presenting a range of World War II-related activities and collections, with live 1940s era music by our Red Hot Band. 

We're excited to be welcoming heritage groups and organisations from across the county including: 

• Bassetlaw Museum
• Blidworth and District Historical and Heritage Society
• Bob Massey History
• Farnsfield Local History Society
  
• Friends of Milton Mausoleum
• Inspire Learning
• Little Creatives Artist Workshops (for under 5's) 
• Mansfield Townscape Heritage Project
• Nottingham City Council Museums: Newstead Abbey
• Nottingham Women's History Group
• Nottinghamshire Bobbin Lace Society
• Nottinghamshire Building Preservation Trust
• Nottinghamshire Family History Society
• Nottinghamshire Mining Museum
• Old Mansfield Society
• Old Warsop Society
• Thoroton Society

Come along and explore pop-up museums and local history displays, find out about family history, browse the books for sale, and get hands-on with fun crafts and activities!