**Please note this workshop is now FULLY BOOKED** The Halloween custom of carving grotesque faces into hollowed-out turnips and using them as lanterns was once widespread across Ireland and Britain. On Halloween night, these lanterns were set atop walls, fences, or gates, left glowing in graveyards, or hung swinging from trees to startle passers-by after […]

Join brick artist Jessica Farrell for a Halloween-themed LEGO® family workshop at Galway City Museum.   This workshop is specially designed for families with neurodivergent children aged 7 and over. It offers a relaxed, collaborative, and creative learning experience that uses LEGO® bricks to build and create together. Each family group may include up to four […]

Join brick artist Jessica Farrell for a Halloween-themed LEGO® family workshop at Galway City Museum.   Designed for families with children aged 7 to 13, this lively and collaborative workshop explores the stories and traditions of Halloween through the medium of LEGO® bricks. The guided activities present participants with fun challenges while developing imagination, communication, […]

Halloween was traditionally regarded as the night when the boundaries between this world and the Otherworld grew thin – a night of fairies, ghosts and the dead.   Join storyteller Rab Fulton as he shares a suitably spooky tale. Afterwards, inspired by the story, create your own illustration of a character or scene with artist […]