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Nash's House & New Place

Daily

Cost: £3.50; concessions £3; children £1.70; family £8.50; discounted Shakespeare Heritage Trail Tickets are also available

Hours: Winter: 11am-4pm (from 12pm Sun); Mid-Season 11am-5pm; Summer: 9.30am-5pm (from 10am Sun)

Nash's House was Shakespeare's family home from 1597 and the adjoining New Place was the house in which he died in 1616.

Owned by Thomas Nash, the first husband of Shakespeare's grand-daughter, Elizabeth, Nash House offers visitors the chance to view the exceptional collection of 17th-century oak furniture and tapestries. The rooms on the lower level display some early 17th century oak furniture, whilst upstairs, the exhibition presents the history of Stratford-upon-Avon before and after Shakespeare.

Visitors can also explore the foundations and grounds of New Place and find out why this residence was pulled down in the 18th century, whilst taking a stroll in the spectacular Elizabethan-style knott garden and spending some time in Shakespeare's Great Garden.

The garden is the setting for an evolving sculpture trail created by American sculpture Greg Wyatt. Inspired by Shakespeare's plays, all these works are in bronze and include The Tempest, Wyatt's first piece, which was unveiled on Shakespeare's birthday, 23 April, 1999, Hamlet (2000) and King Lear (2001). The works imaginatively blend characters and incidents from the plays, and each has an appropriate quotation.

Nash's House & New Place