Touchstones Rochdale Exhibition & Events Guide January - April 2019

Discover | Explore | Learn January - April 2019

Exhibitions | Events Performances | Participation 1

At a Glance Exhibitions

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Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project

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A Postcard from Rochdale

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Harry Meadley: But what if we tried?

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From Herbs to Hospitals: Health and Wellbeing in Rochdale

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Borough Beats: Music from 1980’s to now

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Rochdale’s Collections

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Sport

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Coming Soon: New exhibition - Peterloo

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Talks, Tours & Special Events

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Performance Revisit: The Dance Project Tour: Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? Talks: Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery

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What’s on SHIVERS Borough Beats: Young Creatives

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A Celebration of Women & Art

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Muckers

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Oh No It Isn’t!

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Family Activities

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Tiny Touchstones

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Homework Club Borough Beats Family Fun Day Adult Craft Workshops

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Japanese Sound Wave Marbling

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Instrument Making Cutlery Wind Chime Regular Activities

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Mindfulness & Wellbeing Family History Drop-in Sessions Knitty Gritty School Holiday Activities

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Family Fun Day - Space Exploration Elmpennys Museum Here be Dragons Birthday Parties

Front cover Image: Performance - Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project. Photography: Len Grant 2

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Get Involved!

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Visitor Information

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Welcome Welcome to our exhibitions and events guide, listing everything happening at Touchstones Rochdale over the next 4 months.

We hope you will enjoy visiting and participating in our offer.

Hello!

We have some real treasures at Touchstones Rochdale to see you through the next few cold months. Warm yourself up on the superb range of exhibitions, performances and workshops on offer in our unique building.

January in the art gallery sees the final weeks of Rachel Kneebone’s The Dance Project, her almost kinetic ‘sculptural choreography’. This exhibition ends 12 January and to mark its final day in Rochdale we have something rather special; a remarkable group of women from across the Borough have been working with acclaimed choreographer TC Howard to make a new dance theatre piece to celebrate Rachel’s work. Join us in the galleries to bid farewell.

Did you know that we have over 1500 works in the Borough’s fine art collection? We’re often asked by visitors why we don’t display them all, so artist Harry Meadley has set us the challenge to present as much as we can in our galleries.

But what if we tried? will explore how we attempted to tackle this challenge and gives you an insider’s look at what goes on behind the scenes. To help us to display some extra pieces, we’ll also be using the display cases at Middleton Arena so make sure you visit to see what’s there.

A Postcard from Rochdale proved a huge hit last year and returns again. Entries are invited to use our collection as inspiration and submit postcardsized artwork to be in with a chance of winning a £100 cash prize.

Our Heritage Gallery displays an intriguing collection of health-related objects from our museum collection as From Herbs to Hospitals celebrates 70 years of the NHS. It also includes Rochdale Borough Sports and Culture Awardshortlisted What’s Your Medicine? created by local people who attend the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Cafes in the Borough. In March, we’ll be launching Borough Beats, a history of music in Rochdale from the 80’s, co-curated with local young people and accompanied by a series of hands-on activities. See the ‘Workshops’ section for more information.

We have a whole range of things to do for families, from exploring space (watch out for the alien slime) to our regular Tiny Touchstones sessions and Elmpenny’s Museum a brand new multi-sensory theatre show for under 5’s. Follow us on Facebook for reminders of family activities especially during the school holidays.

We also continue with our regular programme of hands-on activities: adult crafts, Knitty Gritty, mindfulness, Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery, gallery tours and more.

Interested in local history? What our Local Studies team don’t know about the Borough probably isn’t worth knowing – drop in and test them out!

Finally, take a break from the winter in the cosy Art Café with excellent coffee, wonderful food and free Wi-fi. You probably deserve a cake too!

We looking forward to seeing you soon

Charlie Rowley, Arts & Heritage Manager

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Exhibitions Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project Until 12 January Gallery One, Two, Three & Four British artist Rachel Kneebone is widely recognised for her practice in which complex porcelain sculptures express physical metamorphosis and movement. Her work has frequently been described as ‘sculptural choreography’ or ‘dance made static’. This exhibition, The Dance Project, features new work that furthers her questioning into the experience of inhabiting the body.

As Kneebone writes: “I have always been fascinated by dance: how bodies meld and merge, how new forms are created by dancers, and how dance allows us to escape to a different space and language. My work is also deeply concerned with movement, form and space.”

To mark the end of the exhibition, join us for a very special performance on Saturday 12 January.

See page 8 for details.

Image: Rachel Kneebone, What is remembered in the body is well remembered, 2017. Courtesy of the artist & White Cube

Supported by Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery

A Postcard from Rochdale 19 January – 18 May Gallery One Having proved a hit in its inaugural year, we return with the second edition of our annual open art exhibition A Postcard from Rochdale.

This time established artists, amateurs and schools were invited to seek inspiration from our rich and diverse permanent collection of over 500 paintings and submit their artworks to the size of a postcard.

Top prizes awarded by an esteemed judging panel include £100 and the chance for one of the lucky entrants to have their postcard reproduced and for sale in our shop!

Image: Charles Burton Barber, A Special Pleader Photo: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service

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To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale

Image: Picture Store at Touchstones Rochdale. Photo: Harry Meadley

Harry Meadley: But what if we tried?

2 March – 1 June Gallery Two, Three & Four Intrigued by the fact visitors often ask us why we don’t show more of the over 1500 works in the Borough’s fine art collection, artist Harry Meadley set us the challenge of attempting to display as much of the collection as possible in a single exhibition. Spanning three galleries, But what if we tried? presents the result of this attempt. As much about the process as the exhibition, the final display will also include a multi-part documentary filmed by Meadley featuring the Touchstones staff as they endeavour to realise this impossible task.

A unique and unmissable opportunity to see a large proportion of the collection on public display, and discover more about all the conservation and research work that goes on behind the scenes.

From January to July 2019 To coincide with this exhibition, we will also be displaying a selection of rarely seen works from the fine art collection at Middleton Arena.

Supported by Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale

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From Herbs to Hospitals: Health and Wellbeing in Rochdale Until 13 April Heritage Gallery Learn more about the development of health and well being in Victorian Rochdale through to the advent of the NHS in the 1940’s.

This exhibition will look at how medicine and healthcare went from being a luxury for those who could afford it to a service available for everybody.

Featuring a range of objects that have never previously been displayed and have been donated to the museum collection from various donors including Birch Hill Hospital and Rochdale Infirmary. Highlights include a beautiful wooden home medicine chest, a selection of poison bottles and a nurses uniform alongside a selection of medical instruments and a horrifying dental drill.

Working in partnership with Manchester University to celebrate the NHS turning 70, the exhibition will tell the stories of local people and their experiences of the NHS through a series of oral history recordings.

There will also be loaned objects from the Museum of Medicine and Health.

The show will also include a display created by people living with dementia who attend the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Cafes within the borough.

Borough Beats: Music from 1980’s to now From March Museum Celebrating the Heritage Lottery Fund project Borough Beats and co-curated by a number of young people from across the local area, this display focuses on music and popular culture from the Rochdale borough from the 1980’s to the present day.

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To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale

Rochdale’s Collections Ongoing Exhibition Museum As well as our changing exhibition spaces, we have a dedicated permanent museum which tells the story of the history of Rochdale in a fun and informative way.

The museum is ideally suited to families and people with an interest in the history of Rochdale. There are interactive displays, hands on exhibits, films, audio and a wide range of objects from the Borough’s collection on display.

Sport From April At Heywood Sports Village Discover more about Rochdale’s proud sporting history in this display of unique memorabilia and local stories.

Step back in time to learn more about Rochdale’s very own baseball team; the Rochdale Greys, the growth of the Hornets rugby team and the boroughs excellence in professional swimming.

The display will also celebrate the wonderful achievements of local Olympians who took part in London 2012.

Image courtesy of Peterloo.org

COMING SOON Watch out for our new exhibition that will open in May to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.

The museum will be displaying a range of objects from the collection with incredible stories linked to Peterloo, including the only surviving banner that was marched from Middleton by a group led by Sam Bamford.

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale

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Talks, Tours & Special Events Saturday 12 January 12.30pm & 2pm | FREE Gallery One, Two, Three & Four

To accompany the exhibition Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project acclaimed choreographer TC Howard worked with a group of women from Rochdale to create a new piece of contemporary dance theatre.

Premiered at Rochdale Town Hall on the launch of the exhibition, this is a chance to revisit to some of the special moments adapted for a oneoff performance amongst Kneebone’s sculptures at Touchstones.

With two repeat performances, don’t miss out on this immersive and emotional piece of contemporary dance.

No Booking Required

Image: Louise Giovanelli, Recast, 2016. Photo: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service

Image: Artist talk for Clare Kenny: Industrial Romantic

Tour: Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?

Talks: Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery

Have you always felt a little mystified by recent developments in art? Join one of the Art Gallery team for a chance to take a closer look at some of the key contemporary works in the current exhibitions.

The Friends organise monthly talks by invited speakers about art and craft and an annual trip to visit other regional art collections.

30 March | 27 April 2pm-3pm | FREE

Continue the discussion over a cuppa and a cake in The Art Café with 25% discount for attendees.

Booking Required

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Image: Performance - Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project. Photo: Len Grant

Performance Revisit: The Dance Project

Second Tuesday of every month 8 January | 12 February | 12 March | 9 April 12.30pm – 1.45pm | £4 (£3 members)

For more details about the next season of events please visit www.link4life.org/touchstones/frags.

No Booking Required

Pay on the day

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale

What’s On The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty presents

SHIVERS

19 January 7.30pm | £12/£10

By Adam Z Robinson. A trio of delightfully thrilling new ghost stories, set to the haunting sounds of the violin. The Book of Darkness & Light contains within it some of the most chilling tales ever told. Supernatural mysteries stir from its pages.

You feel a prickle on your neck. Your blood stills. A monstrous thing creeps in the shadows. Is it all in your mind? A trick of the light? Or something far more sinister? One thing is for certain: these stories will give you shivers.

A co-production between Harrogate Theatre, Square Chapel Arts Centre and Little-Mighty.

“A uniquely terrifying experience.” - The Spooky Isles “Absolutely captivating.” - Audience Member Age 14+

120 mins

Borough Beats: Young Creatives 19 & 26 January | 2, 9, 16, 23 February 2, 9, 16, 23 March Saturday | 1pm-3pm | FREE

Join our new Borough Beats: Young Creatives programme on Saturday afternoons to take part in music and arts activities and work towards the Arts Award Explore certificate.

This opportunity will provide entry level skills into the creative industries in an informal setting.

The group will have the opportunity to work with professional artists and curatorial staff to create a new exhibition and learn new music and visual arts skills.

For more information or to book on the project please contact boroughbeats@link4life.org or phone 01706 924492 to speak with Project Co-ordinator Alison Cooper.

Booking Required

Ages 11-25 yrs

The Rochdale Youth Theatre, Fridays 3-5pm at Touchstones FREE for young people aged 13-19yrs.

For more information and to book a place contact Lisa.Oneill-rogan@link4life.org

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale 9

A Celebration of Women & Art 8 March 7.30pm | FREE

To mark International Women’s Day the women from the Kneebone dance project will be creating a new piece of movement, drawing on our collection and commenting on the representation of women in the art world.

30 mins

Booking required

60 mins

Age 5+

Image: Performance - Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project.

Photo: Len Grant

Muckers

12 April 11am and 2pm | £3 Paloma has always mucked about with Pijon. They love it. They run wild. They dress up. Like tigers, flamenco dancers, queens, kings, rabbits and Lady Gaga. Everything.

Life is fun and funny and a little bit loopy.

Created by award-winning theatre maker Caroline Horton and an international ensemble, Muckers is a funny, magical, physical production for ages 5+.

With original songs and quite a lot of Spanish, this mischievous show asks what it takes to stand proud and be true to ourselves, and how we empower the next generation to do the same.

Oh No It Isn’t!

19 April 7.30pm | £6

They’re the best of sisters onstage but the worst of friends off it. It’s the final performance of Cinderella in a moth eaten, regional theatre and backstage tensions threaten to boil over onstage. Will the egotism, oneupmanship and sexual politics remain confined to the dressing room? Will the ugly sisters keep the professional professional and the personal personal? Will we ever find out what happened during Babes In The Wood?

This show is not suitable for children.

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Based on a lifetime of experience onstage and backstage Oh No It Isn’t is a hilariously funny and beautifully moving new play exploring the highs and lows of life in the theatre.

Written by and starring Great British Pantomime Award nominee Luke Adamson and using real anecdotes and stories it is an impassioned yet tender love letter to the world of performance.

 Female Arts on ONE LAST WALTZ  Ginger Wig and Strolling Man on THE

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60 mins

Adults

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale 10

Family Activites

Tiny Touchstones 10, 17, 24, 31 January | 7, 14, 28 February | 7, 14, 21, 28 March | 4 & 25 April Thursdays | ÂŁ2 per session These creative drop in sessions use a range of exciting and open ended objects to stimulate the senses for babies and inspire imaginative play for the under 5s. Each week we bring new themes inspired by the world and art around us and invite parents and children to relax, build, sort, create and play together in a welcoming space. Our early years artist is on hand to inspire your adventures.

For anyone aged 0-5 and their grown ups.

Homework Club Every Wednesday | 3.30pm-4.45-pm | FREE Saturdays | 1pm-4.45pm | FREE Got a project to finish, need a picture printing out?

Come along to our Homework Club. Children under 11 years must be accompanied by an adult.

Just turn up

Families

Drop in any time between 10.15am - 12.15pm and stay as long as you like.

Just turn up

0-5 years

Borough Beats Family Fun Day Tuesday 16 April | 11am-2pm | FREE

Join the museum team for fun music and crafts activity linked to our new exhibition Borough beats.

No Booking Required

5-12 years

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale 11

Adult Craft Workshops Inspired by our on-going music project and new exhibition due to open in the permanent museum in March, try your hand at something new in our fun and friendly adult craft workshops. Price includes all materials. Payable on booking.

Participants booked onto our workshops will receive a 10% discount from The Art Cafe.

Japanese Sound Wave Marbling 9 February 10.30am-12.30pm | £10

Join artist and maker Sarah Albon to discover Suminagashi or ‘floating ink,’ the Japanese technique of marbling.

Inspired by music, participants will explore and create marbled papers of echoing waves using colourful layers.

Limited Spaces

Booking essential

Instrument Making 9 March 10.30am-12.30pm | £10

Using strings, springs and saw blades participants will design and build their own unique wooden acoustic musical instrument from scratch with guidance from artist David Chatton Barker. Each instrument will have provided a contact mic for potential amplification.

Limited Spaces

Booking essential

Cutlery Wind Chime 13 April 10.30am-12.30pm | £10

Craft buddies Karen Vine and Trish Cartner will help you fill your garden with the soothing sound of tinkling musical notes by upcycling old metal cutlery and making it into an attractive embellished wind chime to enjoy on a warm summer breeze.

Limited Spaces

Booking essential

To To book: book: visit visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, www.link4life.org/touchstones, call call 01706 01706 924928 924928 or or pop pop in in to to Touchstones Touchstones Rochdale Rochdale 12

Regular Activities Mindfulness & Wellbeing

25 January | 22 February | 29 March | 26 April 5pm-6pm | £5 Join us in our peaceful Gallery setting to explore the popular practice of Mindfulness. Learn how to become more aware of your thoughts and feelings through activities and breathing techniques that have been proven to reduce stress and improve wellbeing.

Just bring your own yoga mat or towel and get ready to relax.

Just turn up

Adults

Family History Drop-in Sessions Local History Centre Every Thursday 2pm-4.30pm | FREE Need help with your family tree or don’t know where to start? Call in to our weekly Family History drop in sessions where friendly staff will be able to help you.

Just turn up

All Ages

Knitty Gritty Last Tuesday of every month 29 January | 26 February | 26 March | 30 April 2pm - 3.30pm | FREE - just buy a brew!

Join our monthly knitting circle in The Art Café.

Feel free to bring along your own knitting projects, share ideas or start something new inspired by our current exhibitions.

Just turn up

All Ages

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School Holiday Activites

Family Fun Day - Space Exploration 21 February 11am-12.30pm, 12.30-2pm, 2pm-3.30pm £3 per child - accompanying adults free.

The Rochdale Outer-Space Exploration Society (R.O.S.E.S.) is now open and looking for new recruits!

Do you have a head for scientific exploration? Ever wanted to take part in a spacewalk or get hands on with a variety of alien slime? If you’ve said yes then SIGN UP NOW! Recruitment process starts here!

Booking Required

Elmpennys Museum 23 February 11am & 2pm | £3

Multisensory theatre for under 5’s and their families.

Poor Elmpeny has lost his most favourite treasures from his museum. Will you join him on an epic quest through wind, water and the woods to help find them?

Families

Elmpenny does hope so!

No Booking Required

Families

Here Be Dragons

11 & 18 April 11am-12.30pm, 12.30-2pm, 2pm-3.30pm £3 per child - accompanying adults free Spring has well and truly arrived! Flowers bloom, lambs leap, chicks hatch and DRAGONS STIR! Help our very own Creative Questers to care for Dragon Eggs - watch out it may get slimy!

Booking Required

Families

To book: visit www.link4life.org/touchstones, call 01706 924928 or pop in to Touchstones Rochdale 14

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Get Involved!

Volunteering

Creative Learning at Touchstones

In Touchstones Rochdale, we’re always looking for volunteers to help out both inside and outside of the building. Whether you’re helping out with our loans boxes, giving tours of the galleries, collecting feedback or supporting our workshops and activities, if you would like to get involved, please email touchstones@link4life.org

Our creative questers - Professors Jigget and Aeon are on a mission to find and recruit the greatest seekers of knowledge in the known universe!

Do you know of any early years children who can get hands on and explore traditional tales through imagination, creativity and play? What about a class of primary children who could become archaeologists, history detectives and crafters of time?

If you’ve answered YES to any of the above then get in touch on schools@link4life.org to have a chat about getting involved!

Don’t forget all our creative learning sessions come with a full lesson plan and will help you achieve all of your learning aims and objectives!

So… what are you waiting for?

Book NOW!

Arts & Heritage Resource Centre Ever wanted to see where we keep and care for the Borough’s museum, art gallery and local studies collections when they’re not on display?

Visits to the Arts and Heritage Resource Centre must be booked in advance, please enquire at Touchstones for more information.

Why not have a look on our website to see the amazing Virtual Reality Tour of the centre.

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Join the Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery The Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery have been essential to our continued growth and development as an important regional art gallery.

Through their generous donations over the years we have been able to conserve and acquire countless key works of art for the collection.

Annual membership is ONLY £10 and in addition to supporting the Art Gallery, you will discounted rates on the annual programme of talks and trips organised by the Friends and invitations to private views for all exhibitions at the Art Gallery.

How to join You can join in a number of ways: • Post a cheque (made payable to FRAG) c/o Touchstones Rochdale, The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ (please make sure you include a cover letter giving your full name, address, postcode, telephone number and email address).

• Ring 01706 924928 and pay over the phone.

• Come along to one of the talks organised by the Friends and pay in person.

Further information To discuss any aspect of the Friends or membership please contact Jenny Buckley (Chair, FRAG) on 01706 358686 or Mark Doyle (Art Gallery Curator & Collections Manager, Touchstones Rochdale) on 01706 924555 or mark.doyle@link4life.org

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Visitor Information As well as our museum, art gallery and events programme, there are plenty of other reasons to visit Touchstones Rochdale. Touchstones Rochdale is the home of Rochdale Borough’s Arts & Heritage Service and is operated by Link4Life.

Visitor Information Centre Our Visitor Information Centre staff will be happy to help you learn more about the local area. They have information about local and regional events, accommodation and hospitality; and are full of suggestions for things to do and places to visit for all ages, backgrounds and interests.

Venue Hire Touchstones Rochdale offers a unique venue for meetings, parties and events and can accommodate up to 100. Our studio space and meeting room offer theatrical lighting, projector, wi-fi etc and are available for hire.

Email touchstones@link4life.org for more details.

Local History Centre Discover the past for yourself first hand. Whether you’re interested in local history, want to trace your family roots or just want to know a little more about the street you live on, we can help you find out more.

Our collections include maps, photographs, ephemera, archives and local newspapers on microfilm. Free internet access including ancestry. com is also available. Just pop in and our friendly staff will help with your enquiries.

The Art Café Open 10am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday, serving a wide selection of fresh hot and cold food, drinks and snacks. With free wi-fi and a relaxed atmosphere, it’s the perfect place to catch up with friends, meet colleagues, or simply relax after enjoying our exhibitions and displays.

Now offering afternoon teas, with optional prosecco!

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Shop The place to get that unique card or gift. We stock a range of souvenirs, postcards, local crafts, jewellery, books and pocket money gifts for children.

Opening Times

Travel Information

Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm

Touchstones Rochdale is located close to Rochdale town centre approximately five to ten minutes walk from Rochdale Transport Interchange with bus and tram access and ten minutes from the Rochdale Railway Station.

FREE Admission Closed on Bank Holidays Contact Us Visitor Information Centre: 01706 924928

We are ten minutes drive from J20-M62. Cycle parking is available outside Touchstones Rochdale with Pay & Display car parking available close by.

Email: touchstones@link4life.org

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