A workshop for beginners, and those with a little experience, curious to try the fascinating art of Wood Engraving, used since the 18th century for illustration. Create an illustration or independent artwork to hang on your wall or send to friends as cards.

Using the polished end grain of a small hardwood block, you will learn how to engrave a design of your own choosing, and take some prints. 

For adults (ages 18+), beginners welcome.

Cost: £85 (£80 for Museum in the Park Members)

Only 6 places so advance booking essential. Book online here or call 01453 763394.

In this special day workshop with tutor Charlie Ash, you’ll discover how the captivating, complex patterns of organic material can be made into relief prints. Tree rings make fantastic natural printing blocks, as they can be easily worked to reveal the concentric rings formed by their yearly growth. Using locally sourced woods such as Ash, Beech, Oak, Hazel and Hawthorn, we’ll be taking a close up look at the different grains of native tree species, and learning how to prepare them into relief blocks. For adults (ages 18+), beginners welcome.

Part of the Print in the Park exhibition celebrating 25 years of GPC.

Cost: £85 (£80 for Museum in the Park Members)

Only 8 places so advance booking essential. Book online here or call 01453 763394.

Collagraphs are central to Jane's printmaking practice, along with Lino and letterpress. In this workshop you will get an insight into how to respond to objects in the Museum's collection to prepare and print a small collagraph. Suitable for adults (ages 18+) - for beginners and those who are interested in developing a multimedia approach to printmaking.

Cost: £85 (£80 for Museum in the Park Members)

Only 6 spaces so advance booking essential. Book online here or call 01453 763394.

Imagine a future of thriving nature, lush forests, flowery meadows and green hills. Join professional artist Alison Cockcroft to create a 3D scene from simple but effective paper cut-out techniques and inhabit it with fun animal characters. All materials provided in this fun creative workshop. 

For young artists aged 7 to 13. 
Children can be unaccompanied, or stay with an adult if preferred. 
Max. 12 places.

Booking necessary - book online or call 01453 763394.

Explore the world of natural dyes in this half day workshop with textile designer and natural dyer Ria Burns. In this three hour workshop, you’ll learn how to dye a selection of British wool yarns a range of vibrant natural shades, using homegrown and foraged plants, and food waste. Ria particularly focuses on using local, sustainable materials, and will share their wide knowledge of natural dyeing with you throughout the session. You'll leave with eight mini skeins of your own hand dyed yarn for crafting, as well as the skills to go on to naturally dye yarn and other materials at home.

For adults. Tickets £50 (concs/MiP Members £40)

Book online or call 01453 763394

This workshop accompanies 'At The Margins', the exhibition of woven textiles by Tim Parry-Williams and Franz Petter Schmidt (10 May to 15 June).

Sorry, this workshop has been cancelled due to illness.

Join the team from Create with Brandywine for an exciting art workshop inspired by Birds & Nature.

Create your own Bird Puppet, Shadow Lantern or Bird Mobile.

Taught by prop makers and artists this is a fun workshop to learn new skills and create a celebration of the birds around you at the beautiful Museum in the Park.

This workshop is for all ages and abilities – drop in anytime between 12 – 2pm - booking in advance is essential so get your tickets now - click here to book!
Tickets £10, under-12s £5, all materials supplied

An exciting creative opportunity for older children and teenagers (ages 10+) to work with their parents, grandparents or aunts and uncles and make a very short Shadow Puppet film:

Construct a simple shadow puppet film scene and learn to devise an action sequence using block cut-outs as your characters, props and scenery.

Work with artist and illustrator Imogen Harvey-Lewis to experiment with shape, outline, movement and character to create an atmospheric black and white reel of your own. The simplicity of this art form allows for maximum inventiveness and effect.

Construction; drawing; paper-cutting; lighting; practice; voice over; action and fun. All together all the time. Simple idea = clear thinking = big possibilities!

Bring your own lamp or torch.

For ages 10+, for parents/guardians and young people to work and enjoy together.

Booking required, cost £10 per family group (up to 4 people including one adult/parent or guardian). Book online or call 01453 763394.

Devise and create a 2D layered film set model using drawing and illustration skills, with local artist Imogen Harvey-Lewis. Learn to make simple flat scenery to construct a multi layered paper environment for a film of your choice – made up or borrowed. Introduce your own drawn characters and shoot a short action sequence using a mobile or camera, bringing in simple lighting and sound effects should you wish.

Big fun. Lots of drawing. Experimental and flat pack. Perfect!

A drop in workshop for families with children aged 5+, parents/adults and children working together.

£1 per child to help pay for materials, pay on the door, donations welcome.

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

Join Artist-Gardener Ruth Illingworth for an introduction to ecoprinting on paper. Using flowers from the Museum’s Walled Garden and leaves from Stratford Park you will create and come away with an A4 ecoprint. You will also learn about which leaves and flowers produce the best prints. Ruth will supply a handout of how to repeat the process at home and useful references.

This special workshop is for adults and is linked to the Growing Places exhibition showing in the Art Gallery. This kind of workshop usually costs from £40 or so, so if you wish to make a additional donation please feel welcome! Ticket fees and donations help support the Museum’s events and exhibitions programme and Walled Garden.

Cost £10, booking required - book online here or call 01453 763394

For adults, all art abilities welcome.

Are you fascinated by the magic of pop-up books and the ingenious art of paper sculpture? Want to learn some fun and fabulous paper engineering techniques?  If the answer if yes, then this day course is for you!

As part of Stroud Book Festival, we are delighted to present another opportunity to join Pop Up Book making expert Duncan Birmingham for a creative day workshop.

We’ll explore the enchanting art of paper pop-ups and aim to:
1. Make a comprehensive set of useful pop-up mechanisms
2. Play with the building techniques that can be used to enhance and develop them
3. Look at the simple underlying theory and explore the design potential

We’ll also look at and analyse a range of delightful and astounding pop-up books which Duncan will bring for you to enjoy. And fear not … beginners welcome, no maths or measuring involved!

Cost: £45
For adults and ages 18+, booking required.
Book online or call the Museum in the Park on 01453 763394

Please bring: a packed lunch, scissors, craft knife, ruler, pencil.
Card and glue will be provided, and a complimentary hot drink.