Heritage Open Days: sensory nature sessions
Book onto one of our sensory nature sessions and discover new ways to experience plants using innovative technology that is designed to be accessible for people with deaf blindness and complex disabilities.
- Booking advisable
- Free event
As part of Croome’s Heritage Open Days, we’re hosting a morning of sensory nature experience sessions at the Outdoor Hub. During these sessions, innovative technology will enable participants to create music and feel vibrations that are generated by their connections the plant life around them.
The technology works by translating electrical currents existing on the surfaces of plants into sounds and vibrations. Audiences connect with the plants so they can both hear and feel their interactions using a wearable vest.
In 2022, Wightwick Manor and Croome joined forces with disability charity SENSE on a project entitled ‘Internal Garden’, which used this technology to make heritage and horticulture accessible for people with deaf blindness and complex disabilities.
These sessions are available for anyone to take part in. We recommend booking your slot in advance to ensure you have time to enjoy your session.
Times
The basics
- Booking details
Call 0344 249 1895
- Suitability
Recommended age 4+ and children must be supervised by an adult.
- Meeting point
Meet at the Outdoor Hub
- What to bring and wear
Wear weather appropriate clothing as some of this session may take place outside
- Accessibility
This activity will take place at the Outdoor Hub, which can be accessed via a hard-standing path. The equipment is designed to be accessible for people with deaf blindness and complex disabilities.
- Other
Each timeslot is 20 minutes long to ensure you have plenty of time to enjoy the experience. If you are part of a group, you may share the timeslot with your companions. You do not need to stay for the duration of your timeslot if you don't want to use the full 20 minutes.
Upcoming events
Pages from Nature exhibition
Pages from Nature is a 200-year anniversary exhibition celebrating the publication of William Dean’s Hortus Croomensis; a detailed record of the vast and varied plant collection at Croome in 1824.
Pages from Nature: Walk through the Pleasure Grounds
Celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the publication of the 1824 guidebook to Croome, the Hortus Croomensis. Explore the views, scents and sounds of the garden at Croome using your own Hortus Croomensis booklet to guide you.
Robert Adam bookcases
A monumental set of mahogany mid-18th-century bookcases, designed by renowned architect, Robert Adam (1728-1792) for Croome Court have returned from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London.
Wild Imagination Exhibition with Sarah Taylor Silverwood
Wild Imagination is a new animation and accompanying soundtrack by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood.