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Corporate Events with Trivia Trails
Recently The MAD Museum teamed up with Trivia Trails to offer fun evening entertainment for corporate groups. This evening involves a fascinating and informative walk through Stratford upon Avon’s historical sites, participating in a very...
We’ve got your Christmas presents wrapped up
GIFT SHOP If you’ve been to The MAD Museum, you’ll know we have a gift shop full of MAD-esque gismos, gadgets and toys. A lot of the items in our shop encourage the Art and Design and the STEM subjects (Science, Technology,Engineering and Maths) while others are just...
Christmas Opening Times
Monday 30th October - Friday 22nd December 10:30am - 4:00pm Saturday 23rd December 10:00am - 5:30pm Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day Closed Wednesday 27th - Saturday 30th December 10:00am - 5:30pm New Year's Eve & New Year's Day 10:30am...
October Half Term
HOLIDAY TREATS This October Half Term get yourself down to ‘Warwickshire’s Best Museum’ as voted by you on Trip Advisor. At The MAD Museum, you’ll find amazing creativity, clever engineering and interactive entertainment. Come and interact with new weird and wonderful...
Scheduled Maintenance Week
It's time to give our machines some well deserved TLC. The MAD Museum will be closed to the public for one week in November. Closed Monday 6th - Friday 10th November 2017. MAD will be open as normal from Saturday 11th November, 10:00am until 5:30pm. We are very sorry...
Stay Play Explore
The MAD Museum is proud to be part of the new Stay Play Explore offer. A family of 4 can visit 3 attractions and sleep in a 4-star hotel (inc. breakfast) for £149. Attractions and experiences include Warwick Castle, Shakespeare’s Birthplace, The MAD Museum, Stratford...
Times Are Changing
Winter is coming... As the nights start to get longer, from 1st October 2017 we say hello to our Winter opening times... 10:30am - 4:00pm (last entry at 3:30pm) 10:00am - 5:30pm (last entry at 5:00pm) *Warwickshire ...
Finalist for Visitor Attraction Of The Year 2017
The MAD Museum was nominated as a finalist for Visitor Attraction of the Year for the second consecutive year at the prestigious Coventry and Warwickshire Tourism and Culture Awards 2017. These awards celebrate the region’s best visitor attractions,...
The Explore Pass by Shakespeare’s England
Next week marks the launch of Shakespeare’s England’s new visitor pass. The Explore Pass offers discounts into over 19 visitor attractions including The MAD Museum, Warwick Castle, Compton Verny and many more. Visitors can purchase a one, two, or three day pass in...
KS1 – KS3 Educational Solutions at MAD
The MAD Museum provides a range of different programmes for groups of children and students of all ages. Here is a brief outline of which topics MAD can help with: Key Stage One Counting, 2D and 3D shapes, Motion, Angles and...
How MAD got on over the Summer of 2017
YAY! We are very pleased to announce The MAD Museum had a record-breaking Summer Holidays. We saw a 40% increase in footfall compared to last year and a lot of lovely reviews online and on our feedback forms along the way. “15,000 visitors over 6 weeks is...
Summer at MAD
MAD ZONE You told us you liked our interactive marble wall so we tripled the size of it and gave it it's own room. Come and play in our brand new MAD Zone this Summer. In here you can build marble runs and make cuburo towers. Experience more interactivity and fun. ...
MAD Visit from Linchfield Community School
SCHOOL VISIT In June 2017, a delightful Year 4 group from Linchfield Community School visited The MAD Museum for the day. A couple of days later, The Team at MAD had a lovely surprise in the post - 70 handwritten letters from the pupils. One of the best parts of...
Thank you for the feedback!
FEEDBACK FORMS RECEIVED IN JUNE If you've been to our museum, you'll know we encourage our visitors to fill in our feedback forms to let us know what they think of their MAD experience. This information is really important to us as it helps us to improve our Museum....
2017 Festival of Motoring
Sunday 30th April and Bank Holiday Monday 1st May. This bank holiday weekend will follow the same successful formula as the past 4 years with an organised run out into the countryside on both the Sunday and Monday morning with about 300 cars returning to park up on...
MAD Building Activities
We offer two different building activities which suit a range of age-groups, abilities and topics.These activities can be bought from The Museum’s gift shop but are offered at a discounted rate when purchased as part of a group booking or purchased from a school/...
This Half Term at The MAD Museum
As well as lots of new bizarre machines to play with, The MAD Museum now has a NEW interactive area called the ‘MAD Zone’. In here you’ll find a giant marble wall for kids (and big kids!) to build their own marble runs, there’s also a hands-on cogs wall to experiment...
Nominated as a Finalist for The Pride of Stratford Awards 2017
On Friday 3rd February 2017 our museum's Founder, Richard Simmons and his wife Carol attended this year's Pride of Stratford Awards. We were finalists in the Small Business of the Year category with Marcus Roofing and Take Flight Aviation. Sadly we were beating to the...