02/11/2026
As soon as our doors close to the public at the end of each season, you can find the team cleaning, caring for our animals, conserving objects, delivering schools sessions, welcoming specific private bookings, researching, evaluating, managing the grounds, prepping winter events, and importantly, planning plenty of activity for the coming year (this winter, that means the site’s 250th anniversary in 2027!).
People think that Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse must be so quiet whilst we’re closed in the winter without any visitors…the truth is that many of our teams of staff and volunteers are as busy as ever! The brilliant casual Visitor Services and Cafe teams aren’t with us for closed season, but the site’s Operations, Bookings, Finance, Learning, Farm, Curatorial and Events teams are all working hard along with volunteers who continue to do plenty of tasks in the colder months.
We miss our general public visitors in the winter, but it makes it so much more exciting to welcome them back for our pre-booked Christmas event on Monday 21 December, and from Saturday 6 March 2027 for a shiny new season!
(The video’s audio is the noisy drone of a special vacuum used when cleaning museum collections, operated by collections volunteer Richard - who took his dust mask off for a moment for this video, so we all could see his lovely smile!)
