Kirklees museums are to launch a special festival to tie in with the Tour de France.
The Le Tour de Musées will be launched next week by the Mayor of Kirklees, cycling enthusiast Clr Martyn Bolt.
On Saturday, March 29 he will cycle between the museums and will be joined by cycling museums staff Eric Brown, Emma Crowley and David Morby at different points during the day.
Welcome to Yorkshire have organised a 100-day Yorkshire Festival to showcase the region’s finest culture which begins on Thursday March 27 and is designed to encourage mass public participation in arts and cultural events in the run up to the Grand Départ, which comes through Calderdale and Huddersfield on July 6.
As part of this cultural festival Kirklees Museums and Galleries have organised Le Tour des Musées to encourage local residents and visitors to visit all the museums and try a range of crafts and activities.
Visitors will be able to collect a leaflet which needs to be stickered at each of the sites to give them the chance to earn prizes for visiting three or more of the sites during the 100 days of the festival.
Clr Jean Calvert, joint Cabinet member for museums, said: “There is a wealth of Tour de France related things to do at all the Kirklees Museums from the end of March until the Tour itself in July.
“Please go along and visit your local museum and try a few others too and see if you can win a prize!”
Tour related activities at Kirklees Museums include:
Bagshaw Museum – Learn some French! When you stop at Bagshaw Museum, learn a few Yorkshire phrases in French and see the display of cycling memorabilia. Dewsbury Museum – Design a Jersey. When your tour reaches Dewsbury Museum design a jersey and add it to our string of bunting.
Oakwell Hall – Bicycle Treasure Hunt. Celebrate the build-up to Le Grand Depart with a fun cycling themed quiz in the Hall’s walled gardens.
Red House – Le Grand Yorkshire. Tell us what’s great about Yorkshire as a place to live and visit in the build up to the Tour de France and Yorkshire Day. Visitors are welcome to add their favourite places to our interactive map of Yorkshire.
Tolson Museum - New display in the Transport gallery
Take ‘le Tour’ around Tolson and make sure that you don’t miss our cycling display. With a new panel for Le Grand Depart and a new case showing more of our cycling artefacts as well as other new transport related objects come and rediscover the exhibitions and stories of Huddersfield.
Huddersfield Art Gallery – Enjoy Yorkshire Art! L.S. Lowry’s painting of Chapel Hill captures the life, landscape, industry and energy of 1960s Huddersfield. Peter Brook’s expressive painting of a Brighouse flour mill portrays the local industrial landscape.
Look out for our new exhibition of Yorkshire landscapes starting in May and the photographic portrait exhibition Yorkshire Made Me arriving in June.
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