Beatrix Potter gets her own Escape Room!
Fans of Beatrix Potter can enjoy solving with a difference, puzzles based on the popular Lakeland writer’s life and work. The Armitt: Museum, Gallery, Library in Ambleside is launching a brand-new Beatrix Potter experience – an escape room in a box, from Friday 18 April 2025.
Titled “Beatrix Potter’s Missing Paper” the exciting, immersive game is suitable for family, friends and colleagues aged 8+ and for 2-6 people, played across 90 minutes.
The concept takes a traditional Escape Room but in an “escape INTO” format where everything – puzzles, clues and locks – are contained within a box, or in this case, an old trunk.
The Armitt has over 300 original Beatrix Potter watercolours of fungi and the museum has regular, changing displays of her paintings. It focuses on telling the story of her life and interest in nature before she started writing “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” and her other much-loved tales.
During the 1890s, the much-adored author submitted a paper she had written about mushrooms to the Linnean Society in London, but it was returned with feedback stated it “required more work”. The paper has since been lost to history. It has never been found.
This new attraction at The Armitt is constructed around the mystery of Beatrix Potter’s lost paper, so players get to enjoy the thrill of potentially uncovering it in a gameplay based on true life.
Puzzles, clues and locks are all centred around Beatrix Potter. There are sections related to her writing, her fungi work, and her passion for farming and conservation of the Lakeland landscape.
“We are really excited to launch this special experience for visitors”, said Manager & Curator, Faye Morrissey. “There’s something for everyone to love – whether you’re a keen Beatrix Potter fan or new to her life and work. It’s a really interactive and fun 90 minutes, whilst also helping you to learn about history and play and solve together as well as communicate as a team. It’s been great to see our tester groups get stuck in before we welcome the general public this Easter”.
This project has received funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and administered by Westmorland & Furness Council’s Thrive with Arts, Heritage and Culture fund.
Tickets are now available to book online from The Armitt’s website – www.armitt.com – for groups between 2-6 people and ages 8+.