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Visit our Sessions page to view our full range of available Sessions and Activities. Each session or activity page has an Enquire form to allow you to submit your enquiry.
Alternatively, if you know which of our Venues you’d like to visit, go direct to their page and find out more information there.
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Search for your learning sessions from over 50 different sessions from 20 different venues plus loans, special events, outreach and CPD.
New 'Art in Science' Session
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery have a new session 'Art in Science' for KS1-2 students. Experiments and printmaking included.
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Queen Street Mill is the last surviving 19th-century steam powered weaving mill in the world
Featured Venue
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
With fascinating Egyptology, fine art, natural and social history collections, a visit is a great way to inspire your pupils and support both teaching and learning in the classroom.
Featured Venue
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
Pupils will be immersed in the sights, sounds and smells of mill life.
Castles and Keeps
Clitheroe Castle
Find out all you ever needed to know about building castles in our fun and interactive session. Discover why castles were built, what they were built out of, and why.
Joseph Briggs, Accrington & Tiffany Glass
Haworth Art Gallery
Learn about the journey of Joseph Briggs, from third generation engraver in Accrington to Managing Director of the world famous company Louis C. Tiffany Studios in New York.
Local History (Life in a Victorian Town)
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
This session introduces the children to changes that happened locally, making Lancashire towns some of the most prosperous in the world
The children thoroughly enjoyed their day and were very excited to share their experiences when they got back to school.
Teacher, Mersey Drive Community Primary School
Latest Outreach
Outreach – Bringing History to You!
Let us come to you! Our outreach programme provides an exciting opportunity for learning to be brought to life within your school or venue.
Museums Loans Service
The Museums Loans Service offers schools and educational establishments the opportunity to examine a wide range of original and replica artefacts up close.
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