Stores Tour: Entertainment and Culture

Cassie Taal is leading a tour of the museum archives at Woodend Gallery and Studios on Friday 4 December, starting at 10am. It's a Stores Tour, which means you're getting into the back rooms rather than just the galleries on display, and this one focuses on entertainment and culture in Scarborough.

Taal, a museum curator, takes you through the performances, venues, festivals and creative traditions that have shaped the town's cultural identity. The tour touches on the Opera House and the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough's pioneering theatre-in-the-round, and the revival of the Scarborough Open Air Theatre. It also brings in the town's celebrated folk festivals and the enduring legacy of Scarborough Fair. Along the way, you'll see artefacts from lost theatres and cinemas — original signage, film reels, posters and programmes — and the visit finishes with a small-group tour of the museum archives with Taal herself.

It's a good look at the side of the town that doesn't always make it onto the walls, and the archive tour at the end is the part you won't usually get to see. Tickets are £15, and a hot drink voucher for Sitwell Nibbles is included, to be used before or after the visit. The tour starts at 10am at Woodend Gallery and Studios.