Holst Birthplace Museum

Venture inside the Holst Birthplace Museum and see the piano Gustav Holst used to create The Planets. You can find why he loved its 'light-contact.' You can find out how he formed into a world-class writer by looking at and tuning in to unique compositions composed when he was a student. Experience what life resembled for his unassuming white collar class family through Victorian rooms. Envision Cheltenham's Regency past in the main Regency room open to people in general in the town.

Imagine yourself as a Victorian tyke as you play in the nursery. Lose yourself as you tune in to the opening bars of Mars. The Holst Birthplace Museum was opened in 1975 and stays one of just two author origin galleries in England. An enlisted philanthropy, it is financed through confirmations and gifts, and through a far reaching system of occasions, including shows and talks consistently. The Museum additionally runs a fruitful instruction program and inventive exercises for youthful guests.

Guided Tours welcome by arrangement. An energizing expansion is the Holst Discovery Space. This room in the Museum houses the Holst document – more than 3,000 articles. There is an intuitive stand where guests can view and hear some out of the Museum's accumulation of early Holst compositions.