Remembrance Weekend - Make your own poppy calendar!

Derby Museum & Art Gallery is running a poppy calendar making session on Saturday 7 November, part of their Remembrance Weekend. It's a drop-in in the Soldiers Story Gallery, where the museum's facilitators help you put together your own calendar using red, white or purple poppies. While you're at it, they'll be talking through the origins and symbolism of the different colours, so you'll walk away knowing what each one stands for.

It's pitched at families, and all children need to be supervised and accompanied by an adult. The session runs from 11am to 2pm, and because it's a drop-in, you don't have to be there right at the start—you can just pop in whenever suits you during that window. It's free to take part, though there's a suggested donation of £3.

If you've never spent much time inside, the museum is an accredited institution with a few things worth seeing. It holds the world's largest collection of works by the 18th-century artist Joseph Wright of Derby, a 'painter of light' associated with the Enlightenment, whose paintings hang in a permanent gallery alongside temporary displays of drawings and prints. There's also Objects of Love, Hope and Fear: A World Collection, seven zones of ordinary and extraordinary objects from around the world, each with its own history of human connection. If you're bringing the kids for the poppy calendar, you've got plenty to wander around before or after.

So, that's Saturday 7 November, 11am to 2pm at Derby Museum & Art Gallery on The Strand, in the Soldiers Story Gallery. Free drop-in, suggested donation £3, and children accompanied by an adult.