The Treasure Chamber: The Book of Hopes

The Book of Hopes - From 17 July 2021
Created by the Story Museum with Guest Curator Katherine Rundell

A new and home-grown exhibition inspired by the award winning 2020 book of the same title, which is about finding hope in the little things and imagining new possibilities; something we have all found ourselves needing to do in recent times.

So come and play in our Garden of Possibilities! Plant a new idea, talk with a friend over the garden fence, spend time in our Creativity Sheds and see what new green shoots appear in your imagination.

This exhibition will feature original work and storytelling from many of the UK's best loved children’s writers. Children’s author, editor of the Book of Hopes and Guest Curator of this season, Katherine Rundell, says: ‘Children’s writers and illustrators are professional hunters of hope. We seek it out, catching it in our nets, setting it down between the pages of a book, and sending it out into the world’. With this season, the Story Museum is celebrating the work of these brilliant storymakers as well as the human capacity for hope, creativity and joy.

The Book of Hopes includes a very special aquatic guest star - make sure you say hello to Aristotle, our Story Museum axolotl, as you enter the exhibition.

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