Join Stroud Valleys Project and the Museum in the Park for this year’s spooktacular autumn adventures!

As well as our family favourite carved pumpkin competition and trail, you can go on a self-guided tree trail around the park’s arboretum, flex your creative muscles with some bats, hats and hedgehog crafts in the Museum, make a pumpkin puppet, or listen to some autumnal storytelling.

You can drop off your carved pumpkins between 2pm and 5pm so that they can be added to our pumpkin trail and entered into the competition. There will be prizes for the best Primary, 11 plus, and family entrants.

This is a completely free event and is suitable for all ages. There is no need to book, just drop in at the Museum in the Park anytime between 1pm and 6pm. Donations for the Museum in the Park and Stroud Valleys Project welcomed.

The full schedule for the day is:

·         1pm to 6pm – Self-guided tree trail of the arboretum

·         2pm to 5pm – Drop off your carved pumpkins

·         2pm to 5pm – Bats and Hats crafts (for a donation)

·         2pm to 5pm – Hedgehog Leaf crafts

·         5pm to 5.30pm – Pumpkin puppets

·         5pm to 5.30pm – Torchlit tour of the Musuem

·         5pm to 5.30pm – Pumpkin judging takes place

·         5.30pm to 6pm – Pumpkin trail plus mulled apple juice (for a donation)

·         6pm – Pumpkin competition winners announced

This event is part of our Garden Guardians project, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.