![]() Free disabled parking will be available on-site, subject to advance booking and availability.Īdmission is £12 per adult and accompanied 15 years and under go free (three per adult) – ‘pay once, visit all year.’ Opening times will be 10 am to 5 pm daily from February to October and 11 am to 4pm daily from November to January. The council will develop a programme of events, exhibitions, gallery talks and school visits, and offer the site for events such as weddings and corporate functions. The new Land Train will operate between Brewhouse Yard and the Ducal Palace at weekends and during the peak holiday season. The council will continue offering two fascinating cave tours – Mortimer’s Hole and King David’s Dungeon – at £5 per person, as well as opening the reinvigorated Brewhouse Yard area. Inside the Ducal Palace, the galleries now offer modern, interactive experiences, including the Robin Hood Adventures and Rebellion Galleries and redesigned galleries for permanent collections of local art and crafts, and touring exhibitions. A decision was taken by the Council’s Executive Board on 21 st March 2023 to work towards reopening the whole site in June managed directly by Nottingham City Council as part of its Museums and Galleries service.įollowing the site’s £31m redevelopment, there is a new visitor centre and café at the entrance, a Hood’s Hideout adventure playground in the moat, as well as interpretative signage around the grounds to discover the site of the lost medieval castle. ![]() The City Council was handed the historical site back by Liquidators for Nottingham Castle Trust which declared itself insolvent last November. “We hope this announcement will come as welcome news, as we have endeavoured to listen to what visitors didn’t like about the Trust’s admission arrangements, and I believe the simpler pricing and exceptional value we are announcing will help to encourage visitors, near and far, to come back again and again.” With the final chance for a grounds-only sneak preview with the new ‘Medieval Legends’ event, visitors of all ages can discover the grounds of the Castle during the bank holiday at the end of May ahead of the full reopening of the site. “We’ve already seen with the Coronation events and the sold-out Eurovision event that people are eager to return to the site – and we’re very keen to welcome them back. Nottingham without its castle is like Robin Hood without his merry men, so it’s going to be fantastic to have it back at the heart of our city’s life. Nottingham City Council’s portfolio holder for leisure, culture and planning, Cllr Pavlos Kotsonis, said: “I am delighted to be able to announce that Nottingham Castle will open again on Monday 26 th June. Nottingham Castle has since announced a final grounds-only ‘Medieval Legends’ event on the Bank Holiday weekend of Saturday 27 – through to Monday 29 May. Although still not a patch on Engelbert Humperdinck.The announcement comes as part of International Museums Day this week, and after the castle grounds hosted a sold-out screening of the Eurovision Song Contest final and crowds of visitors enjoyed the King’s Coronation and Coronation Concert screenings in May. Great soundtrack song by Brian Adams, though. Our sister was a big fan of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (particularly Alan Rickman), but that film was too modern and Costner’s Robin Hood far too American for us. He was the first one for us - a great Hollywood actor, and we like the fact it didn’t take itself too seriously. We showed them to one sister and she said, “God, I hope you haven’t bought one for me, they’re horrible.” We didn’t give them out in the end. So we bought quite a few of them as presents for our sisters – we thought it would remind them of old times when we were young. We saw that they had all this old money in frames and we thought it was marvellous. ![]() One of the last times we visited the Castle they had a market there, selling various goods. We remember going inside Mortimer’s Hole at the Castle during one of those. They used to do all these shows and open up the caves in Nottingham. Do you remember Nottingham fortnight? It was the last week of July and the first week of August. It’s amazing that you can see for so many miles from it. It was a nice castle before and it’s very well positioned on top of the hill. Judging from what we’ve seen as passers-by it looks like they’ve done a really good job.
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