Matilda at the Roald Dahl Museum

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Matilda Day, Saturday 3 December

Calling all maggots! Join in with an extra special day of Matilda fun to kick-off the season of celebration. Walk through the Museum gates into the Crunchem Hall Primary School playground and try out some school yard games with a Trunchbull twist. Bring your own homemade Bogtrotter cake for judging in the Bogtrotter Cake Off (don’t worry, the losers will be spared the Chokey), and be part of a mass power pose next to Matilda’s statue at 11am.

Enjoy Matilda storytelling throughout the day, find the pesky pigtails around the Museum, and explore the galleries with our Marvellous Matilda Challenge. Head to the craft room and help fill the creative wall with your child heroes, or try out some optical illusions and tricks in the pop-up Magical Mind-Bending Room.

If that’s not enough — gosh you’re a very demanding lot — you can head to the shop for some special offers on Matilda books and goodies, or share your Matilda power pose photos with the Museum to win tickets to see the film. Plus come dressed up as Matilda, or one of her school friends, for a chance to win a prize.

 

Magical Matilda Christmas, 3 to 31 December

Throughout December visitors can enjoy some special storytelling from Matilda in our magical wondrous wood, explore the galleries with a Matilda trail, and find the pigtails hidden throughout the Museum.

You can also try out Trunchbull skittles, hammer-throwing hoopla or Miss Honey’s hopscotch around the Christmas tree in the Museum courtyard — now Crunchem Hall playground — or inside in Miss T’s Phys Ed Hall if the weather’s bad (and if you’re brave enough!). Try out tricks and optical illusions in the pop-up Magical Mind-Bending Room or pull a power pose by Matilda in the courtyard.

Visitors can also pick up a special Matilda version of our Village Trail to make the pilgrimage to Great Missenden library, which is the very library Roald Dahl imagined Matilda visiting while he was writing the book.

 

Museum opening days

  • Open Thursday to Sunday from 10am to 4.30pm

CHRISTMAS OPENING

  • Tuesday 20 to Friday 23 December: OPEN 10am to 4.30pm
  • Tuesday 27 to Saturday 31 December: OPEN 10am to 4.30pm