This is a hands-on museum

You can touch this. Go on, touch it!

Learn more by getting hands-on. Inside and out you’ll find plenty of opportunities to interact with the works of art on show. Come and be surprised. Just remember to pack your creative brain and be ready to have some fun.

Many of the displays tell the story of a vase or a sword or a painting in quirky, unusual ways, that really involve you in the experience. Like Top Tips for ‘reading’ a tapestry. Tapestries are like paintings, the artists carefully planned every stitch. Each detail means something and now you'll be able to unpick the beautiful piece they created to really understand it.

Everyone has a story to tell. Stories are how you learn, about yourself and others, they can entertain, educate and comfort. There's often great delight in passing them on to new family and friends.

The Burrells felt the same. They collected many interesting pieces that reveal a story and there will be a new space in the gallery to explore them. You're going to like it!

Partners like the Village Storytelling Centre will create activities that bring the collection to life, in a way that's never been done before.

Bringing the outdoors in will be an even bigger part of enjoying the museum than it was before. When you are inside, you will feel connected to the awe-inspiring nature on show in the park. Outside the museum has been designed to entice you in, to explore the incredible new experience you have helped create.