Wild Wednesday: Beautiful Butterflies

Beautiful Butterflies- using sweep nets in the meadow

Wild Wednesdays are an hour of hands-on activities for children and their parents to experience local wildlife. Using the range of habitats at our site, each day has a different theme to introduce the creatures large and small who live alongside us all the time. We focus on the joy that experiencing nature brings, with a little bit of learning along the way. We hope you will come away with the curiosity to go exploring in your own local area and find out more.

Minimum one adult to every 3 children

Sessions go ahead whatever the weather, but some activities may be adapted or moved indoors according to conditions.

Buy 5 for the price of 4 (Child ticket £15 reduces to £12, adult ticket £25 reduces to £20

Date: 30th July 2025

Times: 10.30-11.30 am & 14:00-15:00

Price: £5 adults £3 children (no museum admission ticket required)

Venue: Field Studies Centre

Directions: How to find us

    Gilbert Whites House

    Gilbert White was aged 7 or 8 when the White family moved from the Vicarage on Selborne’s Plestor, to this house, called ‘The Wakes’ (named after the Wake family who had lived here previously). At that time, the property would have been no more than a ‘two up, two down’ but over subsequent years several extensions and additions have been made, creating the long, sizeable house you see today.

    The rooms have been restored following descriptions in White’s own correspondence and include a chair he used at Oriel College, Oxford (loaned from the College), items of contemporary furniture, family portraits and bed hangings embroidered for him by his aunts.

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