A new museum trail inviting families to track down pottery pups opens at Sharpe’s Pottery Museum in Swadlincote this August. The self-guided activity, announced on the museum’s events page, runs from Saturday 1 August to Saturday 29 August, with entry priced at £1 per trail.
Visitors can drop in between 10am and 4pm daily to follow clues around the museum, reveal the answers, and win a prize. The trail is designed for children and families, offering a flexible outing during the summer school holidays.
The August event follows the museum’s July trail, which carried an Ice Cream theme and operated under the same £1 drop-in format. Sharpe’s Pottery Museum runs monthly themed trails as a regular part of its programming. The museum occupies a Grade II listed bottle kiln building and opened to the public in 2002, though the pottery works were founded by Thomas Sharpe in 1821.
Standard museum admission remains free, with regular opening hours on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm. The museum is located at West Street, Swadlincote, DE11 9DG.
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