Bank holiday fun at Compton Verney

The Museum and Art Gallery has created a bank holiday family weekend, incorporating both the grounds and the indoors.

Children can swing and climb in playground in the woods, discover more about the wildlife, flora and fauna in the grounds with the new nature trail backpacks, play hide and seek in the willow tunnels, look for bats inside the restored ice house, see the world from a new perspective inside Jem Finer’s Spiegelei and search for Marcia Farquhar’s giant rocking horse.

On Sunday and Monday artist in residence Laura Ellen Bacon will be running a workshop in the grounds where visitors can help weave a giant web from natural and man-made materials. Visitors will also be able to see two of her finished commissions in the Capability Brown landscape. Created from natural materials these are Laura’s artistic response to the grounds at Compton Verney which make spaces which capture the delight of crafting a small where visitors can dwell and reflect.

Indoors there will be Summerspace where people can make models to add to a giant scene of the grounds at Compton Verney or add a tile of their own creation to a larger than life mosaic of the landscape. There are also a wide range of activity packs for children and families to use to help them explore the collections.

Admission to Compton Verney is from £4.40 for adults and £2 for children.

For more information go online.