Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden. Harewood Bird Garden is a home to over 40 species of birds from around the world. Visit, and you will see the critically endangered Bali starling, charismatic and colourful parrots, as well as our popular colony of Humboldt penguins. Learn about the birds that we care for, explore their characteristics, their conservation status and what makes them unique. See one of the worlds’ largest owl species or listen to our flock of Zebra finches. It’s a wonderful place to discover with your own brood!

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Lisa Bath - Potty for Parrots - Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden.

Nick Dowling - Bird Garden and Farm Experience Manager - Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden.

Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden Harewood Bird Garden is a home to over 40 species of birds from around the world. Visit, and you will see the critically endangered Bali starling, charismatic and colourful parrots, as well as our popular colony of Humboldt penguins. Learn about the birds that we care for, explore their characteristics, their conservation status and what makes them unique. See one of the worlds’ largest owl species or listen to our flock of Zebra finches. It’s a wonderful place to discover with your own brood!

Jane Marriott - Director of Harewood House Trust - Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden

Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden - Rare Birds Harewood Bird Garden is a home to over 40 species of birds from around the world. Visit, and you will see the critically endangered Bali starling, charismatic and colourful parrots, as well as our popular colony of Humboldt penguins. Learn about the birds that we care for, explore their characteristics, their conservation status and what makes them unique. See one of the worlds’ largest owl species or listen to our flock of Zebra finches. It’s a wonderful place to discover with your own brood!

Abby Crake - Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden - Rare Birds

Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden - Harewood's Significant Collections Harewood Bird Garden is a home to over 40 species of birds from around the world. Visit, and you will see the critically endangered Bali starling, charismatic and colourful parrots, as well as our popular colony of Humboldt penguins. Learn about the birds that we care for, explore their characteristics, their conservation status and what makes them unique. See one of the worlds’ largest owl species or listen to our flock of Zebra finches. It’s a wonderful place to discover with your own brood!

Peter Stubbs - Celebrating 50 years of the Bird Garden - Harewood's Significant Collections

Christmas at Harewood - A Night at the Mansion It’s ‘after hours’, the doors are closed and it’s the moment when Harewood House really comes alive. The statues are singing, the paintings are gossiping and there’s hustle and bustle both above and below stairs, with the anticipation of an important guest in the run up to a truly festive Christmas. Created by acclaimed British artistic duo Davy & Kristin McGuire, from Studio McGuire, open the doors, look under the stairs, listen out for chatter and gossip and follow the music as Yorkshire’s most exciting country house presents its interpretation of Christmas. With workshops, festive-themed music, events, market weekends, cooking demonstrations and, of course, an opportunity to meet with Father & Mrs Christmas, there’s much to explore this festive season at Harewood.

Jane Marriott - Director of Harewood House Trust - Christmas at Harewood - A Night at the Mansion

Kristin McGuire - Studio McGuire - Christmas at Harewood - A Night at the Mansion

What is craft and why does it matter is the theme of the first exhibition of the first ever Harewood Biennial this March. Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters, showcases 26 of the most exciting British-based makers today, against a backdrop of a House created by the finest craftsmen of its time. We’re counting down to the opening of our new exhibition, one of the boldest and most exciting exhibitions in recent times.

Jane Marriott - Director of Harewood House Trust

Hugo Macdonald, curator of Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters, grew up in a small, remote hotel on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He worked at Wallpaper* and Monocle, where, as design editor, he oversaw all architecture and design content in the magazine, newspapers, books and on film.

Hugo Mcdonald - Curator of Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters

Harewood sits within easy access of the vibrant cities of Leeds and York and is one of the Treasure Houses of England, Surrounded by over 120 acres of gardens and parkland, it was once the home of Princess Mary, Queen Elizabeth’s aunt and today is a charity open to the public, programming seasonal exhibitions of national significance and providing a family-friendly day out complete with Bird Garden and penguins. www.harewood.org

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