WE OFFER great value for families looking for inexpensive activities during the summer holidays.
How about dressing up as a Benedictine monk or a medieval peasant, or take on the role of a Red Cross nurse or Tommy soldier in the Great War?
Other challenges include preparing a water cure patient for an early morning ‘pack’, restoring Hanley Castle or working out which Victorian shops sold items such as hair restorer, shoe laces or dressmaking accessories.
A water challenge will also offer surprising facts about Malvern water without getting wet.
Every visitor is offered an audio guide as part of the admission. These handheld devices have been greatly appreciated over the years and provide enticing, amusing and fascinating layers of information about Malvern’s past.
Visitors are also given a copy of a 1915 National Registration card that has brief details about a Malvern character who lived during the First World War.
It could be a child, a soldier, a female inhabitant or one of our great local leaders such as Charles Dyson Perrins or Sir Edmund Lechmere. Their individual war stories can be read in the final upstairs room.
This room also contains a large roll of honour commemorating the 430 men from the Malvern area who lost their lives in the Great War of 1914-18. This could be a starting point for a family history research project, perhaps.
For those who enjoy using smartphones, the museum has a series of QR codes that reveal lesser-known details about Malvern’s past, such as whether monks wore underpants, donkey cruelty, dodos and what happened to pupils who truanted from local schools in the Victorian period.
It is easy to upload the QR app in the museum and then you are ready to discover a secret layer of historical curiosities!
If you haven’t been to the museum yet then why not call in? Admission is only 50p or free at the weekend for children between the ages of 7 and 18.
We are open every day from 10.30am to 5pm and you will receive a warm welcome from our stewards and leave with a firm impression of how great Malvern really is.
