Welcome to the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens' schools pages.

Click here to download our Primary Schools programme 2008/9, here for our History Programme for Secondary Schools or here for our Science Programme for Secondary Schools.

Our museum has permanent exhibitions on Roman, Viking and Medieval life, displaying our extensive archaeology collection, and a display of fossils in our Hunters and Hunted gallery. Outside, the botanical Museum Gardens contain a Roman Tower, the remains of the medieval St Mary's Abbey and Yorkshire's oldest working observatory.

We also have a programme of special exhibitions, which currently include Fingerprints of Time, which explores the science of dating objects, Aliens and Natural History of the Abbey, which display fantastic natural history specimens, and Vikings - Fact and Fiction. Click here to find out more.

We have two learning rooms, The Curia and The Lab, which are both well-equipped to support school workshops on history and science.

Badge of Quality

Our dedicated team of educationalists were among the first in the country to be awarded the Learning Outide the Classroom Quality Badge.

The Quality Badge is a new scheme designed to combine both recognition of learning and safety issues.

The scheme is part of the Government's £4.5m Out and About package which encourages teachers to take their classes out of the classroom.

We offer discounts for school group bookings - click here for more information on prices and booking.

Workshop Programme

A range of bookable education workshops support Early Years, Key Stage 1 & 2 and Key Stage 3 & 4 pupils. Click here for more information.

Downloadable Resources

We also offer museum trails to use during self-guided visits - click here for more.

Opportunities for Teachers

Why not use our museum as a venue for your staff development days? This is an ideal way to combine an away day from school with practical and interactive sessions to explore learning in museums, or to brush up on your own knowledge and skills. Our Assistant Curators of Learning are happy to assist with planning your day.

In addition we can offer practical activities in our learning rooms, tours and talks by staff, behind-the-scenes access, cross-curricular approaches to learning outside the classroom, including culture, history, science, art, archaeology and citizenship, tea and coffee on arrival and assistance with lunch arrangements.