Easter at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

Children’s ‘Wonderful Easter Wednesdays’ on 4 & 11 April, plus activities for all the family: Easter Sunday 8 and Monday 9 April.

The activity days are a focal point for families to enjoy the Museum during the school holidays, with arts, crafts, games, and entertainment designed to appeal to all ages. There will be demonstrations of traditional Tudor Easter preparations and cooking in Winkhurst Tudor kitchen, and in other buildings there will be similar demonstrations from Stuart and Victorian time. On Good Friday, Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday there will be demonstrations of traditional Easter preparations in our working Tudor kitchen. We are delighted to welcome the renowned Tudor Group, a history interpretation group who will be cooking in our Tudor kitchen and celebrating Easter and at the Bayleaf farmstead.

On Easter Sunday visitors will be able to take part in egg painting and egg rolling. Easter Monday will see the Museum continue its long-standing bonnet making competition, which culminates with the judging and grand parade in the Museum’s Market Square at 4pm. Visitors will also be treated to a Punch and Judy show during the day.

The Museum will run two ‘Wonderful Easter Wednesdays’ for younger visitors, on Wednesday 4 and 11 April. The two days will follow a similar format to the well-established programme of Wonderful Wednesdays that run during the schools’ summer holidays. Activities will include outdoor games, a museum trail, arts and crafts, and Victorian and Tudor themed things to do. The Easter school holidays begin on Monday 2 April are a delightful time to visit, with spring in the air, traditional breed farm animals including new spring lambs, and horses undertaking seasonal tasks.

Visitors to the Museum will be able to enjoy all of the Museum’s exhibits, which include around 50 historic buildings, rescued from destruction and carefully reconstructed in the heart of the South Downs National Park. There will be a chance to visit the Museum’s authentic Tudor kitchen, and 17th century watermill, which will be grinding flour sold in the shop and used in the café. Children will love the woodland walks and feeding the hungry ducks on the lake with grain from the mill.

Richard Pailthorpe, Museum Director at the Museum commented: “The activities over the Easter holidays offer 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.”

For more information visit http://www.wealddown.co.uk/Events-Information/Easter-Activities/