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Tullie

Name: Tullie
Address: Castle Street, Carlisle, CA38TP, GB
Telephone: +441228618700
Price range: $
Rating: 4.6

Museum and Café Tullie open 7 days a week. Next exhibition Tick Tock Marvels: The Playful World of Automata opens 13 June. A home for the eternally curious.
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Museum, art gallery, community hub, generally great place. Forward-thinking programme of special exhibitions and events. 800,000+ strong collection, just saying.

23/06/2026

Next Tuesday 30 June sees a wonderful combination: Percy Kelly and postal paths! 📮🎨

An exclusive selection of works by Kelly will be brought out of storage and into the Reading Room for you to experience up close. Including this delightful illustrated letter to Kelly's friend Joan David.

You'll also be regaled with stories of Cumbria's postal paths by author Alan Cleaver. Hear all about some of the most beautiful but challenging postal paths in the country and the individuals that walked them to keep Cumbrians connected.

The event runs from 1-4pm with talk starting at 2pm and opportunity to peruse the Percy Kelly works around the talk.

Tickets are £8 | £6 for Tullie Friends

https://tullie.org.uk/events/cumbria-postal-paths/

🖼️Illustrated Mallard letter. Watercolour and ink on paper by Percy Kelly (1918-1993). © The Estate of Percy Kelly.

20/06/2026

It's here! The Play Zone opened alongside Tick Tock Marvels: The Playful World of Automata last weekend.

Little ones can leap, slide and just generally run about to their heart's content.

One-hour slots are:
£2.50 for Under-2s, £4.50 for Under-5s, Free for Over-5s.

Book yours: https://tullie.org.uk/events/the-play-zone-at-tullie

Play Zone at Tullie proudly sponsored by Lloyd Motor Group.

19/06/2026

On Thursday 25June - our new exhibition will be open until 8 O’clock at night!

Come and experience our weird, wonderful and whimsical new automata exhibition Tick Tock Marvels and have a go at some Dada drawing!

Dada was a protest movement by artists and poets who rejected logic - in favour of nonsense, anti-art and the absurd!

Come and be inspired by the automata on display and forget how to draw using playful prompts, random objects and unconventional techniques!

Drawing prompts, props and materials are included with admission, which is only a fiver or if you have an annual ticket - no cost at all!

16/06/2026

It’s been a little while, but Sarah is back in the shop tracing connections from wonderful shop items to the museum collection.

15/06/2026

It’s Refugee Week! And this year the theme is Courage to recognise the strength, resilience and contributions of people seeking safety.

We’re taking part this Saturday with a relaxing zine-making workshop ‘Zines for love and courage’ led by Mina Banisaeid.

Mina is known for her bold, expressive, intricate and colourful artwork, and together we’ll explore themes of love and courage – with mindful drawing, calligraphy and a backdrop of calming projections and music.

You’ll leave with a beautifully illustrative Zine / fold-out poster.

No experience needed – just curiosity, empathy and a willingness to create.

For ages 14+
Booking required - https://tullie.org.uk/events/zines-for-love-and-courage/

All materials and light refreshments provided.

There’s also a carnival this weekend + some other themed workshops and activities organised by Afrikana CIC Carlisle College, PINC LGBT+ Youth - Pride in North Cumbria, Multicultural Cumbria, Carlisle Refugee Action Group page, Carlisle One World Centre

12/06/2026

Come along tomorrow (Saturday 13 June) to help us celebrate the opening of Tick Tock Marvels! There’s all the good stuff mentioned in the video, plus The Play Zone soft play adventure, music and brand new pizzas in Café Tullie.

11/06/2026

The marvels are nearly all in place, ready to take you on whimsical journeys when Tick Tock Marvels: The Playful World of Automata opens on Saturday. ⚙️✨

Here are some pictures from the installation by Stuart Walker. We're very excited for you to see it in person.

07/06/2026

All the way from Detroit to Carlisle, Live at Union Lane have outdone themselves and will be bringing De'Sean Jones & Blaque Dynamite x Urban Art Orchestra to Tullie on Saturday 4 July.

Grammy-winning drummer Blaque Dynamite (Mike Mitchell) joins visionary saxophonist, composer and conductor De’Sean Jones, leading Detroit’s boundary-pushing Urban Art Orchestra in a high-energy collaboration that fuses jazz, funk, hip hop and raw Motor City soul.

Tickets £20. Doors 7pm, music starts 7.30pm.
https://tullie.org.uk/events/desean-jones-blaque-dynamite-x-urban-art-orchestra/

Blaque Dynamite De'Sean Jones

06/06/2026

We're thankful for our volunteers every single day, but especially on Volunteers' Week. This week we've given each of our volunteers a box of treats as thanks and put on some film screenings for them in the Auditorium.

Our team of over 170 volunteers are absolutely essential to the day-to-day running of the museum. They bring visitors' experiences to life on the galleries, help keep the garden looking stunning, assist in documenting the collections and even put on tours.

Here's just a few of their lovely faces. Be sure to say hello next time you visit. 👋

Volunteers' Week

05/06/2026

Is Percy Kelly Cumbria's most famous postie? (Postman Pat doesn’t count)

Just announced for Tuesday 30 June, join author Alan Cleaver for a talk on his latest book The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Trails And The People Who Walked Them. Alan will focus on the extraordinary postal routes of rural Cumbria where postmen and women walked — and sometimes cycled — up to 20 miles a day across some of the county’s most beautiful yet challenging terrain.

Our curators will also be setting up a display of works by major Cumbrian artist (and former postie!) Percy Kelly in the Reading Room to be viewed before or after Alan's talk.

Event runs 1-4pm, with talk starting at 2pm.

Tickets £8 (£6 for Tullie Friends)
https://tullie.org.uk/events/cumbria-postal-paths/

Address

Castle Street
Carlisle
CA38TP

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

Telephone

+441228618700

Website

https://tullie.org.uk/

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