Museum of Cannock Chase Family Day

Sunday 2nd August

A free festival of fun at one of the region’s most popular local museums.
Free shows and activities from 12 noon to 4pm.

Set on the edge of Cannock Chase, at the gateway to the Hednesford Hills Nature Reserve, the museum has been presenting puppetry for many years in connection with its award-winning education programme.

The Family Day’s free activities include 2 performances of Little Red Riding Hood by Objects Dart (see page 5), at 1pm and 2.30pm. There is no pre-booking so please be sure to take your seats in plenty of time!

There’s a lot for all the family to see and interact with in the Museum, including the Toys & Games Past and Present Gallery, the Miner’s cottage and the 1940s room, and the chance to experience what it would be like to go down the mines!

There’s a coffee shop and a gift shop on hand too, as well as picnic areas and over 30 acres of countryside to ramble.

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Sanders Park, Bromsgrove
(near the Jubilee Bandstand)

The annual summer programming of Puppets in the Park brings free puppet shows in the summer sunshine – we hope! – on the first Sunday of the month from June to September, at 1.30pm.

This year you can see – free of charge – these shows:

Maurice’s Friends – from Belgium – by Marten Lierman’s Poppentheater – 7th June
Salt – a traditional Russian tale – by Objects Dart – 5th July
Punch & Judy by our very own Prof Clive Chandler – 2nd August
and the ever popular Robin Hood, presented by Major Mustard – 6th September