Wassailing will be back outside the Museum in the Park on the afternoon of Saturday 22 February … expect a madcap mix of music, morris dancing, mayhem and merriment! Come along between 1.30pm and 3.30pm, everyone welcome whether you are wearing your raggy coat or finest attire. Come dressed up as your favourite Beast if you so wish!

This is an outdoor community event, weather permitting, free but donations very welcome. Hot drinks and cakes available to buy inside the Museum.

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

Try painting with brushes made from foraged natural materials and use scrap paper to create a landscape.  Think about looking after our natural environments by playing our recycling game and use some cool science to create your own Earth inspired artwork. Enjoy our natural garden games and add a paper flower, tree or plant to our paper garden. Tell us what your favourite wild animal is by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the Museum with our landscape themed trail. We invite you to discover and explore together through this range of family-friendly activities designed to bring the theme of natural landscapes alive.

Designed for families with children over 5 years old who need a quieter, calmer experience. We ask other visitors to please understand that spaces during this session are reserved for families with children with this need.

The session will run between 2pm and 3pm. All activities are optional, and we will encourage and support families taking part in the activities as much or as little as they choose.

£1 per child, booking required. Book online here or call 01453 763394.

Try painting with brushes made from foraged natural materials and use scrap paper to create a landscape.  Think about looking after our natural environments by playing our recycling game and use some cool science to create your own Earth inspired artwork. Enjoy our natural garden games and add a paper flower, tree or plant to our paper garden. Tell us what your favourite wild animal is by adding to our voting wall, before exploring the Museum with our landscape themed trail.

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

Designed for families with children over 5 years old. Drop in between 11am and 1pm.

£1 per child. Please pay on the day.

Drop in and meet artist Natasha Houseago, who will be working on her new sculpture in the Museum Courtyard (weather permitting!). She’s creating a ‘Pledgehog’ for the Gloucestershire Archives Green Pledge Project and you can make a pledge to help nature and wildlife while you watch her work. You can also ask Natasha why she was so inspired by the humble hedgehog!

This half term we’ll be joined by the Green Pledge Project from Gloucestershire Archives.  We’ll be exploring how the local landscape has changed over the last few centuries and imagining how it might look in the future.  We’ll be making our own Landscape in a Box.

We’ll start by looking at maps, photos and other material from Gloucestershire Archives as well as visiting the museum’s landscape change gallery for inspiration.  We’ll talk about how and why the Stroud area has changed and share ideas for how it might look in the future. Then we’ll choose whether to create a historic or future landscape in our box.  We’ll then use scrap and recycled materials to build our landscape and include a message about the changes of the past or the hopes for the future inside the lid.

For children aged 7-11 and their parents/grandparents to enjoy together. All materials supplied, just bring your imagination!

Free but booking required – book online or call 01453 763394