Norton Priory Museum & Gardens is a fantastic day out, with an award winning museum, excavated medieval ruins, the spectacular St Christopher statue, the lovely Walled Garden and the extensive woodland and sculpture trail. Norton Priory also manages Halton Castle, which is open on special days throughout the year. Winner of Sandford Award 1992, 1997, […]
The Sandford Award is an independently judged, quality assured assessment of education programmes at heritage sites, museums, archives and collections across the British Isles.
More than 350 sites - including historic houses, museums, galleries, places of worship, gardens, landscapes and collections – have received an Award since the scheme began in 1978. They include Hampton Court Palace, Brunel’s ss Great Britain in Bristol, Fota Wildlife Park in Eire, Edinburgh Castle, and Big Pit - the National Mining Museum of Wales.
Newark Millgate Folk Museum
A collection of over 70,000 items that contains Archaeology, Costume, Natural History, Art, Photographs, Social History, Civil War and Military items. A small selection of objects from all of these areas are on display at the Museums in Permanent and Temporary Exhibitions As well as exhibitions, the museum offers an exciting programme of events ranging […]
New Lanark
Award winning Visitor Centre. Beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village nestled in the spectacular south Lanarkshire valley in southern Scotland, close to the Falls of Clyde and less than an hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow. Winner of Sandford Award 1999, 2004, 2009.
Natural History Museum
One of the great world museums. Over three million people visit the Museum each year, more than the population of London when the Museum was built, in 1881. Thirty galleries, including the famous dinosaur collection. Winner of Sandford Award 2009. The museum is a magnificent experience and offers huge amounts to see and do. The […]
National Wool Museum
Wool was historically the most important and widespread of Wales’s industries. The picturesque village of Dre-fach Felindre in the beautiful Teifi valley was once the centre of a thriving woollen industry, earning the nickname ‘The Huddersfield of Wales’. Shirts and shawls, blankets and bedcovers, woollen stockings and socks were all made here, and sold in […]