Art for All: Summer Sunprints

Art for All: Summer Sunprints runs at Tudor House and Garden on Thursday 30 July, a cyanotype printing workshop for all ages. The whole idea is to make prints inspired by nature, using the museum's own garden as your source. If you're not familiar, cyanotype is that old-school photographic process that produces those deep, Prussian blue prints — you lay things like leaves or flowers on treated paper, let the sun do the work, and rinse it out to see the silhouettes left behind. It's a great way to spend a summer morning with the kids, and you get something to take home at the end.

There are three sessions to choose from: 10:15am–11:15am, 11:30am–12:30pm, and 1:15pm–2:15pm, each running for about 45 minutes. If you can't make the 30th, the whole thing runs again on 24 August, so you've got two dates to work with. Under-16s need to be accompanied, and there are free accompanying adult tickets available for those keeping a young person company, though adults are more than welcome to join in themselves.

The venue is Tudor House and Garden on Bugle Street, Southampton's oldest museum and the city's most important historic building. The timber-framed Tudor House, which faces St Michael's Square, was built in the late 15th century, and the adjacent King John's Palace — a Norman house you reach through the garden — dates back another 300 years. It opened as Southampton's first museum in 1912 and now mixes family activities, interactive tech, and displays that cover more than 800 years of history. There's a wet-weather option for the workshop, so it's not dependent on the forecast. The museum is also part of the government's Great British Summer Savings initiative, with reduced admission prices from 25 June to 1 September 2026.