Free exhibition at Weston Park Museum exploring Sheffield's relationship with sugar, marking the museum's 150th anniversary.
Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar opens at Weston Park Museum on Friday 27 November and runs through to 7 November 2027. It's an exhibition that looks at Sheffield's relationship with sugar, tracing it from the city's history through to how it's shaped our food and our health.
The show is part of the museum's 150th anniversary celebrations. Weston Park opened in September 1875 and tells the stories of Sheffield and its people from prehistory to the present day, with changing exhibitions alongside visitor favourites like Spike the Woolly Rhino and Snowy the Polar Bear. This particular exhibition draws on the objects that built the museum's collections, including the first item ever accessioned — a platypus specimen given museum number A1 — and many pieces donated by the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society, whose gift made the city's first public museum possible. There's also a slideshow of photographs showing the museum across the last 150 years.
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If you're heading over, there's a bit more to see nearby. The Picturing Sheffield gallery hangs Sheffield-themed art by local artists including Andy Cropper, Stanley Royle, Joe Scarborough, Joyce Spurr and Godfrey Sykes, and the museum café is called Ambulo. Entry is free, though they ask for a £5 donation.
