Dedicated to the magical theme of childhood, Dewsbury Museum presents a child”s eye view of history. At Dewsbury Museum you can experience things that have changed in the lives of children over the last century. In the ”Growing Up in Dewsbury” exhibition, you can gaze through the windows of a 1940s classroom taking a trip […]
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.
Culzean Castle
What you see at Culzean Castle today is a result of many years of careful restoration by the National Trust for Scotland, that has united the different stages of Culzean’s aesthetic history. It reflects the different stages of Culzean’s past, from Robert Adam’s additions to the medieval tower house, to its heyday as one of […]
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre
Culloden was the last hand-to-hand battle fought on British soil. Part of a wider European religious and political conflict, the short but bloody fight changed the course of history. Today the causes and consequences of the Forty-Five are still hotly debated. Since the mid-nineteenth century the battlefield has been a place of pilgrimage for people […]
Croxteth Hall And Country Park
Historic Hall, Victorian walled garden, home farm and country park. Croxteth Hall and Country Park is one of Liverpool’s most important heritage sites, one of “the finest working country estates in the North West” Winner of Sandford Award 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2006.
Crathes Castle
One of the most beautiful and best preserved castles in Scotland occupied by the Burnetts of Leys for over 350 years and set against a magnificent garden with its world-renowned June border. Winner of Sandford Award 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007.