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Holiday cottages in the Cotswolds

Holiday cottages in the Cotswolds

Holiday cottages in the Cotswolds StayCotswold have been renting out Cotswold holiday homes since 2009. They are an independent holiday let agency based in the Cotswolds and they are passionate about enabling guests to have a memorable Cotswold holiday. They also have...

New Rolling Ball Sculpture

New Rolling Ball Sculpture

We are pleased to announce that we have a new exhibit at Mad. This was a commissioned exhibit by Mad and is a rolling ball exhibit called the RBS 5 by Ian Paradine. RBS 5 by Copper-Gravity. This Rolling Ball Sculpture is made by UK artist Ian Paradine. Ian creates...

Rob Ives Wooden Automata Models

Rob Ives Wooden Automata Models

We are thrilled to announce that we are now stocking the new wooden automata models designed by renowned artist Rob Ives. The models will be available in the Museum or from our online shop. Rob Ives is a British automata maker who creates intricate and whimsical...

Price changes

Price changes

Due to rapidly rising costs in all areas, especially utilities, we unfortunately have no option but to increase our general admission prices. As of Wednesday 1st February 2023, our entry prices will be as follows: Adult £8.80 Child £6.00 Concession £7.00 Family £25.00...

MAD is 10 years old today!!!

MAD is 10 years old today!!!

To all our visitors, artists, school groups, home education groups, birthday party groups, photography groups, our official MAD photographer chris fossey photography, corporate groups and everyone behind the scenes who make MAD tick. Also a big shout out to the...

Tickets now on sale!

Tickets now on sale!

It feels like we've been closed for ever, but fingers crossed, pending an announcement from the Government we should be able to finally reopen again on Monday 17th. With that in mind, we have made tickets available for purchase for certain dates. Tickets are available...

Important Update

Important Update

MAD will be open to the public on Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th November, 10:30am - 4.30pm. We will then be closed to all visitors until 2nd December in line with the new national lockdown restrictions announced by the Government last weekend. We will...

New start, new exhibits!

New start, new exhibits!

As we announced earlier this week, MAD has officially reopened its doors to the public after an enforced closure of more than 4 months due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We've made quite a few changes to the museum in order to prepare for reopening, a lot of these have...

We are open!

We are open!

MAD has finally opened its doors again! The museum will be open from 10:00am to 5:30pm every day in August, including Sunday. Admission is by PRE-BOOKING ONLY to prevent any queues and to help maintain a safe number of people in the museum at any one time. Book your...

We are reopening on Monday 3rd August!

We are reopening on Monday 3rd August!

Some good news at last! We are delighted to announce that MAD is reopening it's doors on Monday 3rd August! The museum will be open from 10:00am to 5:30pm every day, including Sunday. To prevent any queues and to help maintain a safe number of people in the museum at...

Closing MAD for 1 week in January 2020

Closing MAD for 1 week in January 2020

As we always like to do, in January 2020 we will be closing our doors for 1 week to give our machines some TLC.  Closed from Monday 13th until Friday 17th January 2020 (5 days). The MAD Museum will be open as normal from Saturday 18th January 2020, 10am until 5:30pm....

Filming at MAD

Filming at MAD

On Thursday 19th December the team from Stratford Live TV will be popping in to film inside our MAD Museum. They will be interviewing our museum’s founder, Richard Simmons, we’ve got some exciting news to share so stay tuned! This news feature will be available from...

Gift Tickets

Gift Tickets

Looking for Christmas present ideas? We offer gift tickets in all shapes and sizes. Buy a loved one a ticket to come and visit our MAD Museum. Find out more here!

MAD’S Telephone Box

MAD’S Telephone Box

The team at MAD has been working on something pretty exciting and we would finally like to tell you about it– We recently purchased an old red telephone box on Henley Street in Stratford upon Avon. It’s located on the opposite end of the street to our MAD Museum, near...

MAD Marble Kits

MAD Marble Kits

Our marble kits have been much more popular than we thought! Every day our team are making more kits and trying very hard to keep up with the demand. If you would like to purchase a kit before Christmas and the kit you want is showing as “sold out”, all we can say is...

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