Budget Day Out: Yorkshire Sculpture Park

We visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton to discover what visitors can expect this year.

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00:00 The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a hidden gem within Yorkshire and it's just off the motorway,

00:06 only half an hour from Leeds, and it's a fantastic landscape and sculpture park. It's something

00:12 quite unique and it's one of the largest sculpture parks in Europe and we're very honoured to

00:16 have this in Yorkshire. So there's a huge parkland of over 500 acres which is probably

00:21 difficult to comprehend but for those that know it's 125 cricket pitches in size, has

00:28 historic landscape from the 18th century and in it over 90 different sculptures. It is

00:33 an accredited museum and a charity but unlike other museums you might visit, as the name

00:39 suggests, this is a big parkland so lots of our sculpture that's on display is outdoors.

00:46 We do have indoor spaces and we're in one of them now, this is our chapel and we're

00:50 surrounded here by work by Leila Babiri. It's got Barbara Hepworth, Henry Mors, Damon Hirst

00:57 and behind me some brand new artists, Daniel Arsham. So it's a fantastic kind of day out,

01:03 it's a full day out, there's lots and lots to do. There's lots to do for kids as well,

01:07 we've just introduced something called Little Wild Wood which is a creative space for little

01:11 ones to run around, to engage with nature and art. We've got three indoor galleries

01:18 for when it occasionally does rain here in Yorkshire and we also have two to three cafes

01:24 and restaurants depending on what day you come. It is this extraordinary historic landscape

01:29 but things are always changing here. We have the changing seasons and you might encounter

01:35 sheep and lambs at the moment in the parkland alongside the sculpture but the trees are

01:41 extraordinary here, you know, you see flowers, you encounter nature and then amongst that

01:45 you find really internationally renowned artists. This is a place where you can come for a great

01:51 day out, you could spend the entire day here because there is so much to explore. You pay

01:57 nothing for parking here, children are free, there's one ticket price and because we're

02:02 a charity you can be assured everything that you're going to pay goes back and is invested

02:07 into this place and what happens here. We also have introduced a new spring/summer pass

02:13 so if you want to come back again during the spring and summer months we've made it really

02:18 effective to do so. We won the Yorkshire Post Tourist Award last year, it was an amazing

02:24 achievement, not clearly for the whole team in terms of what they achieve and what they

02:28 offer here. We really feel this is an excellent value for money day out for the whole family

02:33 or for couples or even for individuals to come along and spend some time with nature

02:38 and with art in the landscape. It is that meeting of art, people and landscape here

02:43 I think which is really at the core of what a visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park is about

02:48 and something that you can't really get in many other places so coming here to experience

02:53 that is really quite unique I think and just a joyous thing to do.