This website uses cookies. Read more about our cookie/privacy policy.

Accept and Close

The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Family Activities: Multi-Purpose Tool Inventions

Free, donations welcome

© Andy Brown

Ever thought how handy it would be to always have a metal-detector in your pocket…. or a spider-stroking brush…. or a magic wand? How about all three? Here you can design and make a prototype for a multi-purpose tool that will satisfy even the most imaginative needs!

All materials will be supplied.

This event will be taking place following government guidance on Covid-19 measures.

Times and locations:

16th August, 12pm–3pm – Weston Park Museum

!8th August, 12pm–3pm – Kelham Island Museum

20th August, 12pm–3pm – Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

You might also like...

Sheffield Fayre

Mon. 26 August 2024

Norfolk Heritage Park, Guildford Avenue, S2 2PL

Celebrating its 21st year, Sheffield Fayre is bringing family fun to the beautiful Norfolk Heritage Park once again this August bank holiday. Expect kite flying demos, brilliant food, rides, a 50s-inspired vintage village, woodland crafts and more.

Site Gallery

Sheffield's home for thought-provoking international contemporary art.

LAND Photographs by Matthew Conduit

Tue. 2 January 2024 — Sat. 15 June 2024

Graves Gallery

Post-industrial landscapes, expressing the Sheffield-based artist's ideas about place, time, context and history.

Sarah Villeneau

An artist working with clay to capture organic textures and movements in abstract sculptures and vessels.