Museums in Norwich teach you How To Train A Dragon ?
During half term, we were invited along to an event not far from where we live, which was a novelty in itself. There are some great museums in Norwich, Norwich Castle is currently hosting an exhibition called `A Viking’s Guide to Deadly Dragons’ inspired by Cressida Cowell’s book How To Train Your Dragon. The exhibition has been created by Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children’s Books.
Featuring Cressida’s original illustrations, the exhibition gives visitors the chance to get up close to the author’s notebooks and watch filmed interviews. There are opportunities for creative play, dressing as a Viking, visiting the Hooligan village and Wild Dragon Cave.
We took Eowyn, Kaide and Neva as the recommended age for the exhibition is 7-12, however they all agreed that all of the other children would like it for different reasons.
The children enjoyed dressing up, and having pretend battles.
It is well set out, with lots of space to move around, we were there before opening time, so it was very quiet, but it appears that everyone will still be able to get a good look at all of the displays on the wall and watch the videos.
In the last room of the exhibition there is a lovely seating area with all of the books to browse and it is set up for school visits to learn about the Vikings, but also a large emphasis on literacy.
The exhibition will be at the Castle until 30th May, so plenty of time to visit
The cost of an adult admission is £8.35, child £6.25, you can get a family ticket with 1 adult and all children for £17.50 or two adults and all children £23.50, and yes I did check and it does mean ALL children that live at your address, so I think you will agree for a larger than average family, this is an amazingly good value day out, however it gets even better, but that is being saved for the next post, stop by soon and find out more. If you are not local to the castle and just here on holiday, there are various websites that offer discount vouchers to be used on Days Out.
This looks awesome! I can’t wait for our little man to be old enough to start visiting castles and having adventures! Fab post! X
What great photos 🙂 Looks like you all had a great time! My girls would love it in a place like that
Oh this looks good reminds me a little of yorvik one.
This looks so great – we love castles and have a gorgeous one in our town. Pickle loves dragons, we would love to visit one day. Kaz x
Sounds like you had a really fun day out, I used to love trips out like this when I was a kid x
This looks amazing. I would love to take my kids there when they are older.
Ahh this sounds amazing – what an awesome exhibition and a fun day out! x
This sounds like a wonderful day out , my niece would love it she is dragon obsessed at the moment.
Looks amazing, my little boy would love that exhibition!
This looks great fun. I love events like this as the kids enjoy it so much they don’t realise they are learning at the same time.
What a great set of activities to do with the children, and very education, even if they don’t think it!
what a fab day out! getting to dress up is always the best thing to do 😀
Dragons and Norwich Castle what could be better?!