Welcome to the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens' schools pages.
Download our Primary School Learning Workshops 2011/12 brochure.
Shortlisted for the Art Fund Prize 2011, the Yorkshire Museum has three fantastic exhibitions and dedicated learning rooms, making it an un-missable venue for a school visit.
Roman York: Meet the People of the Empire tells the story of the real people who lived and worked in York.
Medieval York: The Power and the Glory focuses on the beautiful artefacts of medieval York and St Mary’s Abbey.
Extinct: A Way of Life is an interactive look at why and how species (including the dinosaurs) have disappeared throughout time and what has evolved to take their place.
History of York Experience: Audio Visual Spectacular is an eight minute film which tells the fascinating story of York’s past.
Making a Visit
We offer discounts for school group bookings - click here for more information on prices and booking.
Workshop Programme
Our extensive workshop programme will begin again in September 2011. Click here for more details of our primary school workshops and information for secondary schools.
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.
Our dedicated team of educationalists were among the first in the country to be awarded the Learning Outside 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.
What our Visitors Think
"The Yorkshire Museum has excellent collections of national importance, reflecting York’s important Roman and medieval history. It also has a first class natural history collection.
"The educational programmes are varied and well designed, and delivered by committed and highly capable staff. There is much in the Museum that delivers the ‘wow’ factor for children and this is an invaluable resource for schools." Sandford Award judge, 2011.
York Art Gallery, York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens have all been awarded the Sandford Award for Heritage Education.
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