February Half Term at The Story Museum
There are not many places where you can learn to draw Chewbacca, create your own comic, lose yourself in a fairytale, and become a Lego master, all in the space of a single week. But then again, there are not many places like The Story Museum in Oxford!
Families looking for their fix of story, magic and wonder, will not be disappointed this February Half Term as Oxford’s most-unusual-museum, situated on Pembroke Street, delivers a packed programme of events, exhibitions and immersive spaces.
Comic lovers are well catered for, with ‘Kaboom! The art of creating comics’, an exhibition exploring the process of what it takes to create the comics we love to read each week. Created in partnership with Beano, The Phoenix Comic and Rebellion, the interactive exhibition was recently featured on CBBC’s Newsround and has been wowing visitors from far and wide since it opened Spring 2022.
Visitors to the Whispering Wood can discover traditional oral tales that continue to shape the stories we enjoy, then head up to The Enchanted Library, and explore story destinations including Narnia, The Hundred Acre Wood and Wonderland.
Younger visitors will want to make sure they visit Small Worlds, an immersive gallery brining favourite early stories to life, including Winnie the Witch, We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, Look Up, and Owl Babies. Little ones can take a ride on bus, curl up with a story on the giant bed, or explore shadows and lights in the night safe.
With all this and more, it’s clear that whether you’re 5 or 105, there’s something for everyone at The Story Museum this February Half Term.
About The Story Museum
The Story Museum is a most unusual museum in the heart of Oxford.
The Museum aims to enrich lives, especially young lives, through story. The Museum was established to ensure that everyone can enjoy and benefit from engaging with great stories and create stories of their own in a place full of wit and wonder.
Highlights include a Whispering Wood, an Enchanted Library and Small Worlds, a dedicated space for younger children as well as a 100-seat theatre, a learning studio and a temporary exhibition space. In addition to welcoming public visitors and school groups to its Galleries, the Museum also delivers an extensive public programme, including skills courses, workshops, drop-in activities and access visits for those wanting to enjoy the Museum in a more relaxed way, alongside a programme of funded community and school participation projects with targeted groups. The Museum attracts up to 100,000 visitors a year. Please visit our website for more information and details of museum/shop/café opening hours.
Website: www.storymuseum.org.uk
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About Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision. www.artscouncil.org.uk
About The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Using money raised by the National Lottery, we inspire, lead and resource the UK’s heritage to create positive and lasting change for people and communities, now and in the future. www.heritagefund.org.uk.
Follow @HeritageFundUK on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and use #NationalLotteryHeritageFund.
About Nesta – Arts Impact Fund
Nesta is an innovation foundation. For Nesta, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. Nesta uses its expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society. Nesta is based in the UK and supported by a financial endowment.
About Arts & Culture Finance: Arts & Culture Finance is part of Nesta and uses social impact investment to support arts and cultural organisations that benefit the lives of individuals, communities and society through their work. It manages two funds, the Arts Impact Fund and the Cultural Impact Development Fund, on behalf of its funding partners.
About the Arts Impact Fund: The £7 million Arts Impact Fund is a collaboration that brings together private, public and philanthropic investment to provide unsecured loan finance to arts and cultural organisations in England that can demonstrate positive social impact. The contributors to the Fund all share a commitment to supporting the arts and culture and include: Bank of America MerrillLynch, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Nesta and Arts Council England, with additional funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. www.nesta.org.uk
Find out what events are on during February Half Term:
https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/feb-half-term
Book tickets to The Story Museum’s Galleries:
https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/buy-museum-tickets