CLOSED – Announcement The National Brewery Centre will be opening in Burton Upon Trent next Spring (2010). Following the closure of the Coors Visitor Centre and Museum of Brewing (formerly the Bass Museum) last year, Planning Solutions Ltd, a British company specialising in the operation of visitor attractions, has announced that it intends to open […]
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.
Muckross Traditional Farms
Muckross House and Gardens are among the most popular of Irish visitor attractions. Take a stroll down memory lane to visit Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s. This was a period before the widespread use of electricity, when all work was carried out using traditional methods. You will visit three separate working farms (small , […]
Mount Stewart
Neo-classical house and celebrated gardens. The exotic luxuriance of Mount Stewart’s celebrated gardens, created in the 1920s by Edith, Lady Londonderry, has helped make it one of Northern Ireland’s most popular Trust properties with all the family. Nominated as a World Heritage Site, the impressive landscape garden makes the most of the unique microclimate of […]
Moseley Old Hall
Elizabethan house, famous for its association with Charles II. The richly panelled walls of Moseley Old Hall conceal ingenious secret hiding places designed for Catholic priests. One of these cramped priest holes saved Charles II when he hid here after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, and the bed where he slept is on view. […]
Morwellam Quay
An award-winning, evocative museum and visitor centre in the heart of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site and Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Just four miles west of Tavistock the historic port, mine workings and Estate, border the beautiful River Tamar. Amidst towering cliffs and gently rolling farmland, a […]