Barley Hall - Learning & Leisure

Children dressed in Tudor costume playing skittles in Barley Hall

Your Heritage

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12/02/2004

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Guildhall

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York

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The Barley Hall Trust

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£50000

Give children a history book and they might struggle to understand the full picture, give them a mop cap to wear or a stick and hoop to play with and they will immerse themselves in their own medieval world.

Barley Hall has recreated that world by converting an old kitchen into a school room to offer an authentic experience and children are engaging with it with enthusiasm.

The aim of the £50,000 project is to educate through fun and experience by ‘living’ in a Tudor house. The project combines the ‘step back in time’ opportunity with a loan resource collection to allow visitors to envisage the hall’s Coffee Yard through time and a changing interactive exhibition.

Sarah Maltby, Director of Attractions at York Archaeological Trust said: “Gaining the funding enabled Barley Hall to start to develop the high quality educational offer that, today, forms an integral part of its success. The models created in 2003 formed the basis of its current formal and informal educational offer, which presently helps to attract over 30,000 visitors to the Hall every year.”