Cold, sticky and heavy – that’s what the material feels like that has been used to build houses for centuries. From mid-April to mid-October, children can use their hands and a wooden frame to shape their own brick here, and collect it a few weeks later as a fired brick. 

The hand-moulded brickworks is one of the most popular stops on our children’s trail featuring ‘Toni the Brick’. The cartoon character guides visitors through the museum via illustrated panels and text displays, and invites them to get involved and have a go with the models.

In the machine brickworks, boys and girls can use heavy metal wheels to press the wet clay through a metal grate in a small roller mill, operate tipping trolleys and make small bricks on the extruder model.