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Explore The Museum

The Enchanted Library

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  • Opening Times

    The Enchanted Library is included within an all day ticket for the Galleries.

    The Galleries are open daily to the public during state school holidays and from Tuesday to Sunday during term time.

    Last entry to the Galleries is one hour before closing time.


  • Families
  • £12 included as part of a Galleries ticket

Discover a magical world of stories...

Step through a wardrobe into Narnia, fly with a snowman or tumble down a rabbit hole to find Alice. Get ready to party in a disused swimming pool and see if you can cut your way through into another world.

Buy a Museum ticket for the Galleries and explore the Enchanted Library. Where else can you wander between the shelves and find yourself inside a story? Lose yourself in imaginary worlds – memorable moments from favourite stories, chosen with the help of thousands of children and young people.

Explore 200 years of classics on page, stage and screen and discover how each golden age of storytellers has inspired the next. Whether you prefer pictures or poetry, mind-blowing fantasy or side-splitting humour, you’ll find books and comics, films and games that you already know and others you’ll want to find out more about filling the shelves in our extraordinary library.

New for 2023 - Choose Your Own Adventure!
The shelves have magically reconfigured themselves in our Enchanted Library and presented us with a brand-new niche for our visitors to explore - Choose Your Own Adventure ®. Based on the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure book series, the new space allows visitors to search for the Abominable Snowman, take a terrifying trip on the Titanic, search for the lost jewels of Nabooti, and blast off into hyperspace. Whatever story you end up with - you alone are in charge of what happens in your story. Click here to learn more about Choose Your Own Adventure’s past and present.

His Dark Materials in the Enchanted Library

To mark the release of the third series of the BBC HBO adaptation of local author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, props and costumes from the series are currently on display in our Enchanted Library including:

  • The Subtle Knife
  • The green writing case and airmail letters written by John Parry to his wife
  • Serafina Pekkala's dress
  • Architecture and props from the Torre degli Angel

You can find further props, costumes and concept arts from the series at the History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum.

Click here to download a map and guide of where to go next after your visit to The Story Museum.

The Enchanted Library is an immersive exhibition with something for all ages. Entry is included with a Galleries ticket

  • Opening Times

    The Enchanted Library is included within an all day ticket for the Galleries.

    The Galleries are open daily to the public during state school holidays and from Tuesday to Sunday during term time.

    Last entry to the Galleries is one hour before closing time.


  • Families
  • £12 included as part of a Galleries ticket
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Buy A Story Pass Unlimited entry to The Story Museum’s Galleries annually

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