Editing Stratford-upon-Avon (section)

=== Museums and Shakespeare's houses ===
Tudor World is a museum which explores the time when Shakespeare lived. It is based in a [[listed building|Grade II*]] listed town centre [[Tudor architecture|Tudor building]] and is the only museum in the country dedicated to Tudor times. Every week there is a walk around the town with Shakespeare.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tudor World {{!}} Day Out with the Kids|url=http://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/family-fun/Tudor_World/1838|website=Dayoutwiththekids.co.uk|access-date=15 November 2016}}</ref> The Mechanical Art and Design museum, but better known as MAD museum, is a museum in Henley Street of "brilliant-but-bonkers machines" made by [[Kinetic artists]]. Items on show include mechanised flipbooks and a musical typewriter.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Potter|first1=Claire|title=Take the kids to … the MAD museum, Stratford-upon-Avon|url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/feb/09/mad-musuem-stratford-upon-avon-day-trips-take-the-kids|website=The Guardian|access-date=15 November 2016|date=9 February 2016}}</ref>

There are five houses relating to William Shakespeare's life which are owned and cared for by the [[Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]]. These include [[Hall's Croft]], the one-time home of Shakespeare's daughter, [[Susanna Hall|Susanna]], and her husband [[John Hall (physician)|Dr. John Hall]] and [[Nash's House]], which stands alongside the site of [[New Place]] which was owned by Shakespeare himself, wherein he died. In [[Shottery]] is [[Anne Hathaway's Cottage]], the home of [[Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)|Shakespeare's wife]]'s family prior to her marriage. [[Mary Shakespeare|Mary Arden]]'s House ([[Palmer's Farm]]), the family home of his mother, is in [[Wilmcote]].

Elsewhere in the district are farms and buildings at [[Snitterfield]], that belonged to the family of Shakespeare's father. [[King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon|King Edward VI School]], located on the corner of Church Street and [[Chapel]] Lane, is a [[grammar school]] thought to have been attended by Shakespeare. In 2016, the school room where Shakespeare is believed to have studied opened to visitors.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kennedy|first1=Maev|title=Shakespeare's school to open to visitors to celebrate 400th anniversary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/shakespeares-school-to-open-to-visitors-to-celebrate-400th-anniversary|website=The Guardian|access-date=16 November 2016|date=20 April 2016}}</ref>