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Important message for this weekend: All visitors must prebook

The Gift Fair is taking place this weekend from Fri 5 – Sun 7 Dec.

  • To manage capacity, all visitors, including members and those who are not coming to the fair itself, are required to prebook

  • If you would like to visit The Gift Fair (visitors and members) tickets can be booked here, including gallery upgrades to see the exhibitions and grounds as well as the fair (members do not need to purchase upgrade)

  • If you are just wishing to visit the grounds and exhibitions please buy general admission tickets

Whilst the fair is on, our ground floor galleries, which includes our Naples, Northern European, Portraits and Miniatures, and The Women’s Library, as well as the Modern Masterpieces display, will be open for the fair only.
The Shelter of Stories, Commodities, Chinese and Folk Art collections, and the parkland are still available to visit.

We recommend car sharing where possible to help with the capacity of the car park.

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Important Update - Site Closed Saturday 7 December

Due to the forecast high winds Storm Darragh is due to bring on Saturday 7 December, we have made the very difficult decision to close our site to all visitors and cancel The Gift Fair.

Our historic building and setting in 120 acres of park and woodland means we have to consider the impact of high winds on our trees and buildings, and as such operate a high winds policy which dictates the conditions under which we need to close. We also have a responsibility to ensure the safety of our visitors, staff, volunteers and Gift Fair stallholders.

As the weather is due to improve on Sunday 8 December we anticipate being able to open and run The Gift Fair as planned. However, we will monitor this closely and if the forecast changes for Sunday or there is damage to our site we may have to close on Sunday also. This decision would be announced on our website, on social media and ticketholders would be contacted by email.

We will automatically issue a refund to everyone who has pre-booked admission or a ticket for The Gift Fair. Unfortunately we’re not able to move bookings in this instance, however if you would like to visit on Sunday then please do rebook and you will still be refunded for your Saturday booking. We will have processed all refunds by end of day Monday, depending on your bank refunds can take up to 10 working days to complete.

Thank you for your understanding.