Educational Visits - Live it! Learn it!
Children enjoying the museum
The Museum has a high reputation for its educational service, and offers specific themes which are closely related to the National Curriculum and higher educational courses.
More than 1000 school and college groups visit the Museum each year. While visiting the Museum students can interact with the characters in the original shops and houses, ride on a tramcar or fairground swingboat, join in a lesson at the old-fashioned school and discover what it was like to be a miner in the underground coal mine. Your guide will bring history to life and let you experience how people lived and worked in the Black Country. You can see traditional skills from sweet-making and glass-cutting to metal-working. From the introduction in the modern exhibition halls to the reconstructed village, the Museum offers groups of all ages, abilities and interests a full day out with a difference.
Education was never so much fun!
Key Stages We Cover
Every Key Stage is catered for from KS1 Houses and Homes to KS 3 Industrial Revolution 1750 – 1900, in the History Curriculum. The Museum is excellent for cross curricular work including materials in Science, Leisure and Tourism, Technology and Art.
Benefits Include:
Children in the schoolroom
- Group rates for groups of 10+
- 1 teacher admitted FREE with every 10 students
- FREE costumed Museum guide for groups of 20+, who can help teachers tailor the day to meet the educational needs of the students
- Topic based visits closely related to the National Curriculum and Higher Education Courses
- FREE preliminary visit for 2 teachers
- FREE Teachers Seminars
- Indoor and outdoor picnic areas
- Qualified first-aider
- FREE coach parking next to main entrance
- FREE admission and refreshment voucher for coach driver
- A wide range of supporting material available for teachers
Download our detailed booking pack, risk assessment and booking form - (PDF 304KB)
Frequently Asked Questions
More answers to help you plan your educational group visit can be found in our educational FAQ.
Teachers’ Resources for the Workers’ Institute
The Workers’ Institute is one of the most recent buildings to be reconstructed on the Museum site. As with other exhibits at the Museum, interpretation is provided by guides and demonstrators on the day of your visit. However, the story of the Institute spreads far beyond Cradley Heath, where it stood originally. The impact of the successful women chainmakers’ strike of 1910, which led to the Institute being built, had an impact that was felt throughout Britain. Additional resources can be downloaded from this page, and are intended to support an in depth study of the subject.
