Looking for some family fun this Easter? Join Surrey museums and galleries on a wild adventure!

The Wild Escape: Get Wild About Surrey is calling all 7-11 year-olds (and their families) to explore wildlife found in our museum and gallery collections and be inspired to make some art of your own. 

Over the Easter holidays, have fun around the county with our wild themed craft activities and find out more about Surrey and UK wildlife at the same time. Discover the perfect habitat for Ssssurrey’s snakes, squirrels, otters, swans, nightjars, fish, badgers, bats, bees and more.
Try clay sculpting hares, meet a Swan Queen and listen to legends, create wildflower prints, hammer copper owl feathers, sew nightjar finger puppets, spot hidden animals, make origami creatures…and then see your artwork with hundreds of thousands in an epic national celebration on Earth Day 22nd April 2023 at a special family festival!
 

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Earth Day – one national work of art! The creations you make in Surrey museums, galleries and schools will be linked in with thousands of creations UK-wide and unveiled as part of an epic national collective artwork! 

This will take place at our amazing Wild Escape: Get Wild About Surrey family festival at Haslemere Museum on Earth Day 22nd April 2023.  
 

Find out more about The Wild Escape: Get Wild About Surrey? 

Get Wild About Surrey is part of a larger national environmental project called the Wild Escape. It comes from a national charity called Art Fund as a fun and engaging way to involve young people in discussions about caring for our natural environment and discovering more about UK wildlife. You can find out more here 

The Wild Escape coincides with the BBC’s Wild Isles programme, a major new natural history series, presented by Sir David Attenborough, revealing a previously unseen wild side of the UK. The series aims to inspire primary school children through art and design activities.

Thank yous! 

The Wild Escape is made possible by lead support from Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants, with additional support from Art Fund. A group of Surrey museums and the Surrey Museums Partnership are working together to make this national initiative available for Surrey families and schools. Locally, we are calling this The Wild Escape:Get Wild About Surrey. The lead museums are: Bourne Hall, Chertsey, Elmbridge, Haslemere, Museum of Military Medicine, Rural Life Living Museum and Surrey Heath with many more across the county joining in.