EASTER FESTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY!
Celebrations, activities, fun and good food: Friday 21 – Monday 24 March 2008 at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.
A packed programme of events and activities awaits visitors to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, throughout the Easter weekend (21 - 24 March). The ‘Easter Festivities’ have proved to be a very popular and enjoyable addition to the award-winning Museum’s annual programme of seasonal countryside events, with activities designed to appeal to all the family.
The Festivities will run throughout the Easter weekend and include a number of traditional crafts and pastimes such as candle rolling, egg painting, face painting, a rural artefact quiz, and a chance to have your portrait painted. There will be a children’s activity trail taking in some of the most beautiful areas of the Museum’s 50 acre downland site. Children will also be able to try traditional games including quoits, a coconut shy, hopscotch, skipping, hobby horse races, and hoops and sticks. And for those wanting to make a last minute Easter card, there will be a chance to design and make your own to take home. The cooks in the Museum’s working Tudor kitchen will be in action, preparing authentic Tudor treats for visitors to sample.
On Easter Saturday and Sunday, visitors will be able to buy delicious local lamb roasted on a spit. On the Monday there will be Easter bonnet making, and the day will finish with a Grand Easter bonnet parade in the afternoon: there will be two categories for the judging, for bonnets made at home, and for those made during the day at the Museum.
Visitors to the Museum during the Easter Festivities will be able to take advantage of free re-entry for any remaining days of the event, making it excellent value for money. They will be able to enjoy all of the Museum’s exhibits, which include over 45 historic buildings, rescued from destruction and carefully reconstructed in this wonderful parkland setting. The Museum’s team of Shire horses and working cattle will be at work at seasonal tasks around the site, and visitors will be able to meet the traditional breed farm animals including new spring lambs. The 17th century watermill will be grinding flour sold in the shop and used in the café, and children will love the woodland walks and feeding the hungry ducks on the lake with grain from the mill.
Henry Warner, Head of Operations at the Museum commented: “This Easter event offers something for all the family to enjoy. Easter is a wonderful time to make the most of a springtime visit, and take advantage of a wide variety of special activities throughout the holiday weekend.”
The Museum is open for the Easter Festivities from 10.30am to 4pm. It is open on Wednesdays and weekends in January and February, plus daily for Half Term 18 – 22 February, and daily all the rest of the year. Opening hours are 10.30am to 6pm, during British Summer Time, and 4pm for the rest of the year. Admission for adults is £8.50, over 60s £7.50, children £4.50, family £23.30 under 5’s free.
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