Explore and discover the hidden history of Stratford Park with our NEW free outdoor heritage trail. Families with children of all ages are invited to come along and enjoy finding out about the story of this special place. And if indoor exploring is more your thing, choose from one of our fabulous museum trails. We look forward to seeing you!

Part of the Safer Stroud Community Event in Stratford Park.

Try your hand at weaving, watch a spinning wheel in action, and plan your Open Mill Day visits to learn more about our local textile heritage. Free, family friendly drop-in activities with Gaynor Veal from Stroudwater Textile Trust. All ages welcome.

For more information about when you an visit local mills and the work of Stroudwater Textile Trust please visit their website.

Be inspired by the history of making cloth in Stroud and try weaving with paper. Learn the basics of weaving and create your own colourful design to take home with you.

Designed for families with children over 5 years old to join in together.

Drop in between 11am and 3pm. £1 per child. Please pay on the day.

Get hands on and discover some of the things used by people who made cloth in Stroud in the past. A chance to look closely, touch and hold some amazing objects to find out about the different jobs that people did including shearing sheep, weaving, and dyeing the cloth to explore more the people who worked in this industry in the past. 

Drop in between 11am and 3pm. Free, donations welcome. Family friendly. 

If you are a teacher looking for resources relating to this topic, please see our Learning Resources and Facilitated School Visits.

We are trialling pre-bookable sessions aimed at families with neurodivergent children who need a relaxed environment to enjoy these activities.

Make a sheep headband to wear and try your hand at some simple weaving. Help wind the bobbin up and try brushing some wool like people did in the past. Investigate some of the things people used to make cloth in Stroud in the past and try printing with wool. Add a mini fluffy sheep to our mini hillside and vote for your favourite sheep before exploring the museum with our Woolly Wonders Family Explorer Trail.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to help bring the theme of weaving alive.

Designed for families with children over 5 years old who need a more relaxed experience. We ask other visitors to please understand that tickets for this session are reserved for families with children with this need.

The session will run between 2pm and 3pm in the Pavilion at Museum in the Park. All activities are optional, and we will support families taking part in the activities as much or as little as they choose. To support a relaxed environment, there are 10 child tickets available to pre-book. Children must be accompanied, although accompanying adults do not need a ticket.

£1 per child. Please prebook - book online or call 01453 763394.

Make a sheep headband to wear and try your hand at some simple weaving. Help wind the bobbin up and try brushing some wool like people did in the past. Investigate some of the things people used to make cloth in Stroud in the past and try printing with wool. Add a mini fluffy sheep to our mini hillside and vote for your favourite sheep before exploring the museum with our Woolly Wonders Family Explorer Trail.

We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to help bring the theme of weaving alive.

Designed for families with children over 5 years old to explore together. Drop in between 11am and 1pm. £1 per child. Please pay on the day.

We see many butterflies, but do we know their names? Or when they are in our gardens? Come and find out more at this month’s Buzz Club meeting in the Walled Garden Pavilion. Don’t forget to take a ride on the miniature railway train in Stratford Park’s woodland afterwards!

This session is for adults and children, entry free, although donations are welcome. Come for all or part of the time and become a Bee Guardian.

Join artist Jenny Bowers for a fun-filled creative session inspired by our gallery exhibition ‘At The Margins’. Using stencils and stamps, paint and pencils come and add your own patterned selvedge marks to a collaboratively made, long length of Stroud red paper 'cloth'. Explore making a repeat pattern paper 'cloth' inspired by the rules and regularity and the collaborative work of the Prindsen workhouse in Oslo. All materials provided. Suitable for ages 6+, for children and adults to enjoy together, FREE but donations welcome. Drop in and enjoy!