Pop-up Museum: 17Nineteen

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens are bringing a slice of their collection out onto the street on Friday 30 October, with a pop-up session at 17Nineteen on Church Street East. It's a drop-in activity, so you can just turn up whenever suits you between 11am and 2pm.

If you've noticed the museum is closed at the moment, it's because the whole place is in the middle of a £13.6m transformation. This pop-up is their way of keeping things going while the main building is being refurbished. Instead of the museum coming to you, they're bringing a bit of it to the city centre for the afternoon.

The theme is spooky, which fits the date. They're bringing out a selection of objects from the collection for you to look at and handle, and the list is a strange one: a poison bottle, a taxidermy owl, and a horse's head. Alongside those, there's local history story-sharing, object handling, and crafts to get stuck into. It's aimed at ages four and over, so it's one of those things you can bring the kids along to on a Friday morning.

It's free to take part, and because it's a drop-in, you don't need to book ahead. You can just pop in for a cuppa and a look at the objects, stay for the crafts, or do both. It runs from 11am to 2pm at 17Nineteen, Church Street East, SR1 2BB.