Those looking for a family day out with a twist will be heading to Middlesbrough this month, for the final days of a quirky exhibition.

Until August 31st the Medieval Machines display will be showing at the Dorman Museum on Linthorpe Road, giving visitors an insight into life in the middle ages.

The exhibition will allow visitors to try their hand at weaving and printing, as well as give them the chance to operate a water wheel.

As if that wasn't enough, other interactive features include assembling an early clock and knocking down castle walls.

The Dorman Museum also has eight themed galleries which display a range of fossils, mounted birds, butterflies, social history collections, old photographs and archaeological finds.

Parents struggling to entertain their children over the summer break may find the museum an entertaining and educational attraction.

Middlesbrough also boasts the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum and the Institute of Modern Art, which is located opposite the town hall.

Museum fans can stay at Thistle Middlesbrough, which with online price check and booking facilities, couldn't be easier.

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Middlesbrough will be hosting what is being billed as "one of the biggest and most spectacular multi-cultural celebrations in the north east" next month.

On July 18th and 19th, the Middlesbrough Mela will take place, celebrating all types of music, art and foods.

The festivities will include a fun fair, children's entertainment and a range of craft stalls, ensuring there is a range of things for visitors of all ages and tastes to get involved in.

According to listings website Upcoming, the Mela attracts more than 25,000 people seeking a fun day out each year.

It adds that the event is not just for members of the Asian community and welcomes revellers of different faiths and backgrounds.

Furthermore, admission to the event is free, making it an inexpensive day out.

The Middlesbrough Mela began in 1991 and has since received a grant from the Heritage Lottery fund to enable it to expand.

Music fans can stay at Thistle Middlesbrough, which with online price check and booking facilities, couldn't be easier.

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The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) will be holding what it describes as the most "significant" Bauhaus exhibition in the UK for 30 years.

The focus of the show will be on the ethos of the Bauhaus School between 1919 and 1933 and it will focus on a variety of different artists and art forms.

Works by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers, films by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, architectural models, design, applied art, furniture and a specially commissioned wall drawing will all go on display.

A series of pieces which have a relationship with the legacy left by Bauhaus will also be up on mima's walls. Artists featured in this section include Markus Amm, Camilla Low, Toby Paterson, Ryan Gander, Lothar Gotz and Andrew Miller.

Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-1933, is presented in mima's Sound Space on the Third Floor Roof Terrace


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A free one-day music event will take place for the ninth time in Middlesbrough this summer

On Sunday June 1st the Middlesbrough Music Live event will see Northern Irish indie rockers Ash take to the main stage, while over 100 other supporting acts will join them throughout the day.

Graham Ramsay, of Ten Feet Tall which organises the event for the local council, said: "We're over the moon to have secured Ash as headliners!

"They're one of those bands that even if you think you're not a big fan, as soon as you hear the hits, you can't stop singing along."

Last year Middlesbrough Music Live drew a record crowd of 45,000 people, thanks to a stellar line up of acts, including Amy MacDonald, The Twang, Newton Faulkner and Elliot Minor.

This year budding pop-punk group You Me At Six and US power-pop band Cartel have been booked, while other top acts will be announced nearer the date.

While in Middlesbrough visitors may also want to visit the city's Institute of Modern Art, take a tour of its high street shops or bungee jump off the city's iconic Transporter Bridge.

Music fans can stay at Thistle Middlesbrough, which with online price check and booking facilities, couldn't be easier.

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