Explore Kensington Palace with the kids this February half-term!

19-27 February 2011

Press release

Embroil yourself in one of our exciting and creative half term activities that the whole family can enjoy!

Best of all you can enjoy all of our half-term events for free with HRP family membership from as little as £55! With so much history to explore spend a day, the weekend or more at the palaces!

Collecting the world
Kensington Palace
19-27 February
11.00-16.00
Make your own cabinet of curiosities and decorate an enchanted mask taking inspiration from our weird and wonderful collection displayed in Kensington Palaces Enchanted Palace experience.

During the February half-term we'll be running Family Learning activities exploring the theme of collecting at the palace with free drop in activities taking place throughout the day. Children will be able to make and decorate their own paper cabinets of curiosities as well as help us add to a life-sized cabinet with their own weird and wonderful specimens. They'll also be a trail to discover which parts of the world objects in the palace's collection come from.

Afterwards explore the Enchanted Palace - a unique multisensory exhibition combining fashion, live performance, music, film and dazzling spectacle to show the palace in a magical light. Intriguing and mysterious characters lead visitors on a journey through the spellbound palace to discover its tales of love and hate, surprise and sadness, secrets and jealousy. This is a secret Kensington Palace – one you’ve never seen before!

Recommended for children aged 5-13 it’s the perfect way to entertain the kids this half term.

Notes to editors

All events are included in the admission price unless otherwise stated, events are subject to alteration, please visit http://www.hrp.org.uk/ for up to date ticket prices and opening times.

For further information please contact Katie Blake in the Historic Royal Palaces press office on 020 3166 6340 or email katie.blake@hrp.org.uk

For images, please register on http://hrp.newsteam.co.uk/ which holds our gallery of images. You can browse and download hi-res images from this site. Usage is free for editorial purposes.

Membership prices until 28 February 2011

_{Annual membership}

_{1 Adult}

_{2 Adults}

_{(joint membership)}

_{Family membership}

_{(1 adult)}

_{Family Membership}

_{(2 adults)}

_{Historic Royal Palaces}

_£41.00

_£63.00

_£55.00

_£80.00

Prices until 28 February 2011*

_Palace	_Adult	_Conc	_Child	_Family
_{Tower of London}	_£18.70	_£15.95	_£10.45	_£46.00
_{Hampton Court}_Palace	_£15.40	_£12.65	_£7.70	_£41.80
_{Kensington Palace}	_£12.50	_£11.00	_£6.25	_£34.00
_{Banqueting House}	_£4.80	_£4.00	_Free	_n/a
_{Kew Palace}	_£5.00	_£4.50	_Free	_n/a

*All individual ticket prices include a voluntary donation

Historic Royal Palaces

Historic Royal Palaces is the independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace. We help everyone explore the story of how monarchs and people have shaped society, in some of the greatest palaces ever built.

We receive no funding from the Government or the Crown, so we depend on the support of our visitors, members, donors, volunteers and sponsors. These palaces are owned by The Queen on behalf of the nation, and we manage them for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

We believe in four principles. Guardianship: giving these palaces a future as long and valuable as their past. Discovery: encouraging people to make links with their own lives and today’s world. Showmanship: doing everything with panache. Independence: having our own point of view and finding new ways to do our work.

http://www.hrp.org.uk/ registered charity number 1068852 -ends-

Explore Kensington Palace with the kids this February half-term!

Explore Kensington Palace with the kids this February half-term!

19-27 February 2011

Press release

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