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Story Shapers

Story Curators 2025-2026

Come and join us on our Story Curators course to learn how exhibitions and installations are created – from first ideas to fully built! Get hands-on with the museum’s professional Exhibitions and Production Teams to develop skills in curation, design and construction, working towards installations which will feature in our Galleries and Events Programme for all our visitors to enjoy.

Perhaps you already have an interest in design or making and want to take those skills to the next level, or perhaps you’re just curious about how exhibitions are created. Perhaps you’re keen to learn carpentry skills, or perhaps you’re fascinated by how we can tell stories visually by building worlds to step into. Or perhaps you are somewhere in between. Either way and every way, this course is for you!

The course runs on a weekly basis from September 2025 to July 2026, with some additional intensive days in May half term and at the start of July. This year, participants will see their design and making work showcased in our next major Treasure Chamber exhibition – opening July 2026!

Priority this year will be given to those participants who have completed Year 1 and 2, followed by those who have attended the Summer Taster Week.

Story Curators is part of the Story Shapers participation programme.

Weekly sessions on Tuesdays, 16:30-18:30 at The Story Museum

To find out more or sign up to your free place, email [email protected] for an application form.

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Summer Holiday Workshops: Virtually Real!

Join us this summer for four days of FREE, hands-on, immersive practical workshops for 11–16-year-olds at The Story Museum, exploring real-world ways to design and create characters, games and worlds inspired by digital ones. Working alongside exhibition designers, you’ll be introduced to lots of different design and technical skills from miniature model-making to character design to sound design and more.

Bring your imaginations and clothes to get messy in. Come for a day - or even better - stay for them all

Tuesday 19th August: Design Your Own Adventure
Take a backstage tour of our new gallery “The Story Arcade” with some of the team who made it, to find out how exhibitions are designed and built. Then, inspired by what you’ve seen, try your hand at designing an interactive, immersive off-the-screen adventure that translates the digital world into the real one.

Wednesday 20th August: Pixel Art Character Design
What makes great character design? Explore how early video game designers created iconic characters using a tiny number of pixels (square dots) on the screen and try your hand at creating your own. Then bring those designs to life by transforming them into giant cardboard costumes and puppets.

Thursday 21st August: 3D model-making
Start your day learning how designers create 3D miniature scale models to help visualise and test their designs. Explore the tools, materials and skills you’ll need to get started, then get practicing those techniques as you work together to map out and build a miniature cardboard version of a platform adventure game.

Friday 22nd August: Sound Design
Spend the day in our fully equipped Woodshed Theatre learning how to design and create a soundtrack to your virtual world. Learn how to record voiceovers, create sound effects and use music to create characters and worlds that sound like no other.

Days run from 10:00-16:00 at The Story Museum.
To find out more or sign up to your free place, email [email protected] for an application form.

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