The Story Museum has always provided well for younger children, with beds to curl up on, lullabies and rhymes, picture books and soft toys, twinkling low-lit peace… as well as opportunities to get messy. But it caters for older visitors, too. Its huge ‘top room’ is now given over to Animals in Fiction offering appealing encounters with characters such as Gromit and Shere Kahn, but also Varjak Paw,
feline master of martial
arts, the rabbits of Watership Down, and Art Spiegelman’s harrowing Maus – perhaps the graphic novel to establish the genre as a literary form. Represented, too, are such up-to-the minute works as Katherine Rundell’s The Wolf Wilder and Nicky Singer’s Island.
Talking of Island – a passionate protest against global warming - the ‘Animal’ theme naturally opens a path to ecological debate, as visitors immerse themselves in delectably atmospheric room- sets of various animal habitats - meadow, jungle, forest, town...
As usual there are plenty of dressing-up and craft activities available and the Talking Throne will be clearing its throat to address visitors. Those readers who have been on a few Pullman-class excursions with Lara and her daemon will have a chance to find out more about their own personal daemon.
As the Story Museum has demonstrated during these last couple of years, it can fill the calendar with original and varied events. Visiting speakers specifically addressing the ‘Animal’ theme during the next few months, will include Philip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo, Piers Torday and Katherine Rundell. As with the world’s wealth of animal stories, the appeal is certainly not confined to young children.
The Museum recently received a further grant enabling it to continue, bit by bit, its development of the rambling, labyrinthine sorting offices it occupies. It is an acknowledgement of just how much has been achieved so far, and the promise of further wonders in store.
The Story Museum is open 10:00-17:00 on Saturdays and on Sundays 11:00-16:00. Visit the website for information on weekday opening and special events
www.storymuseum.org.uk
“The best place I’ve ever been!”
a safari through stories
immersive habitats | world animal stories | time for bed narnia | talking throne | event and workshops
42 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP Registered charity no. 1107809
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