Invitation to Capturing Clubland

The Museum of Club Culture team spent the summer recording peoples memories of Hull's nightlife. We will be showing these videos on Saturday 5th December. 11am - 4pm.
Untold Stories is part of Roots and Wings Hulls Creative People and Places Project funded by Arts Council England and the James Reckitt Library Trust.

The Launch of One Minute Hull, Artists Moving Image Festival

Friday 6th November will be the launch of the very first One Minute Hull, Artists Moving Image Festival. Over 500 one minute videos made by local, national and international artists will be screening at The Museum of Club Culture, Thieving Harry's, Studio Eleven Gallery and The Central Library throughout the weekend. We are delighted to be hosting the launch party!

One Minute Hull, Artists Moving Image Festival

The Museum of Club Culture is pleased to be a part of the  first 'One Minute Hull, Artists Moving Image Festival'  Friday 6th, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th. For more information go to
www.oneminuteartistfilms.blogspot.co.uk/

Dr. Alec Gill MBE

Dr. Alec Gill MBE recalling his memories of Hull's nightlife for our Untold Stories project.  The Museum of Club Culture received an Untold Stories 2015 Award to document the  history of Nightlife in Hull, if you would like to be a part of this please contact us at museumclubculture@gmail.com

Untold Stories is part of Roots and Wings Hulls Creative People and Places Project funded by Arts Council England and the James Reckitt Library Trust.

Club culture in Hull

The Museum of Club Culture received an Untold Stories 2015 Award to chronicle the history of nightlife in Hull. We have been video-recording your stories about club culture in Hull. There is still time to be a part of it and we would love to hear from you. Contact us at museumclubculture@gmail.com

A 'must see' show

Only After Dark exhibition continues weekends until Sunday 9th August at The Museum of Club Culture 11.30 - 4.30. A must see show by guest curator and local Hull photographer George Norris. Free Entry

Only After Dark preview 10th July

The Museum of Club Culture celebrates five years with a new exhibition at our new location in the heart of Hulls old town

Only After Dark

The Museum of Club Culture presents
ONLY AFTER DARK
A celebration of Hulls nightlife and Youth Subcultures
In association with guest curator George Norris

Preview 6pm -8.30 pm on Friday 10th July

Exhibition Open Weekends 11am to 4.30 pm from Saturday 11th July to Sunday 9th August
at The Museum of Club Culture Suite 5 Bond 31, 42 High St Hull.

Celebrating and chronicling Hulls rich nightclub and music heritage that reverberates down the years from the Working Mens Clubs and Music Halls to the Big Band Ballrooms and Folk clubs, the Trad and Modern Jazz coffee clubs and pubs to the Mod R&B Allnighters, the Discotheques and gigs, the Punk hangouts and Electronic dance music club nights. An exhibition that spans the generations with memorabilia, club flyers, membership cards, clothing, posters, photography and film all contributed for the exhibition by the people of the city.

Only After Dark is dedicated to the Night Owls the Rock n Rollers the Teds, the Beatniks, Mods and Rockers the Weekend Ravers, the Soulies the Punks and New Romantics and all the party people of Hull for puttin on the style and dancing the night away. Nightspots referenced include The Bier Keller,The Tower,The Wellington Club Oddessey Discotek, Dingwalls, Romeos and Juliets, Skyline Ballroom, New York Hotel and Ballroom, Baileys, Spiders,Trogg Bar, Kon Tiki, Blue Lamp, Club Penguin, Brick House, Silhouette, LAs, Adelphi, Gondola Club and Coffee Bar, Grannys Parlour Folk Club,Telstar, Movin Scene,The Waterfront, Majestic, The Locarno, Disco 66, Club 51, Ocean Eleven, Spiders, Eclipse,The Room, Fruit just a few names that resonate with memories down the years in Hull the City of Club Culture.

Untold Stories 2015

The Museum of Club Culture has received an Untold Stories 2015 Award to make a film chronicling and celebrating the history of Nightlife in Hull. Untold Stories is part of Roots and Wings Hulls Creative People and Places Project funded by Arts Council England and the James Reckitt Library Trust. We are video-recording your stories about the club culture of Hull from the 1960s onwards producing a record that will become part of the Untold Stories Archive, raising the profile of the Library Service and the wider cultural offer of Hull.
We are looking for people to interview for this cross generational project, and to bring in any Hull related nightclub memorabilia that we can photograph to add to the archive/film. So if you spent time dancing the night away at coffee clubs, ballrooms, discotheques and nightclubs such as The Gondola Club and Coffee Bar, Grannys Parlour Folk Club,The Locarno Ballroom,Club 51,The Majestic, Kevin Ballroom, Movin Scene,The Discoteque, Brick House, Fagins, Malcolms Discoteque, Beverley Road Baths, Kon Tiki Club, Skyline, Baileys, New York Hotel, Purple Pussycat Club, Flipper disc Cafe,Telstar, Tiffanys Nightspot, Hofbrauhaus, Trogg Bar, Henrys, Oddessy Discotek, Club International, Romeos and Juliets, Bier Keller, Lexington Avenue, Eclipse,The Silhouette Club, Wellington Club, Blue Lamp,Spiders, The Room, Adelphi Club, or Fruit we hope you choose to take part and tell your own story of Hulls nightclub scenes. Please come along to The Museum of Club Culture on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th July 12pm - 4pm or contact us at museumclubculture@gmail.com

Installation of film and video by Kerry Baldry continues 2nd, 9th and 10th May

We had an excellent launch of the installation of film and video by artist Kerry Baldry last weekend. Thanks for all those that attended. Kerry Baldry's exhibition continues Saturday 2nd May, 9th and 10th. From 12pm - 4pm. Free entry

Installation of film and video by Kerry Baldry

The Museum of Club Culture presents

a preview of
installation of film and video by Kerry Baldry
at
The Museum of Club Culture gallery,
Suite 5, Bond 31, 42 High Street, Hull, HU1 1PS
on Friday 24th April from 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition continues weekends until May 10th
12pm - 4pm
Free Entry

The Imagine Report, UK Music

'Hull is to be City of Culture in 2017 and the music heritage of the city is rich. Hull boasts The Museum of Club Culture, the world’s only museum dedicated to clubbing, which in 2013 hosted a temporary exhibition on David Bowie’s most famous stage-persona Ziggy, drawing 30,000 visitors through its doors to see the collection of photographs and memorabilia'  
http://www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/industries/music/music-case-studies/music-case-music-heritage-tourism

Capturing the True Culture of Hull through a lens

An article in Hull's Tenfootcity magazine about George Norris' recent exhibition at The Museum of Club Culture. February 2015