A lot happens between the end of closing the Museum on 30th October and the opening of the Museum Christmas Shop towards the end of November. Fanfare! The Christmas Courtyard Market to be held on Monday 14th December. All thanks to our stallholders and visitors over the last few years, this is now a firm favourite as an out of town Christmas get together. The Courtyard combines with our much-loved Museum Christmas shop and carols around the courtyard Christmas tree. Music, mulled wine, warming food and artisan stalls on a cobbled courtyard amongst barn buildings. And then there’s Punch and Judy on hay bales too!