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Sandford Award Winners

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.

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Science Museum

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace. Today the Museum is world renowned for ...

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Filed Under: London Tagged With: Attraction, Free, Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Ryedale Folk Museum

As you step through the entrance of the Ryedale Folk Museum you will be transported back in time. Take a walk through the site and learn about the ...

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Filed Under: Yorkshire Tagged With: Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Rugby Art Gallery And Museum

Steering you through Rugby's history going back more than 2,000 years. What is the story behind the school cap? How does the spark plug fit in with ...

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Filed Under: Warwickshire Tagged With: Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Royal Cornwall Museum

Over the years generous benefactors have donated an amazing array of objects, broadening the collection so that it covers for example Egyptology ...

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Filed Under: Cornwall Tagged With: Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Royal Armouries, Tower Of London

The Royal Armouries is located in the White Tower, the central keep of the Tower of London, which is its historical home. The Armouries is one of the ...

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Filed Under: London Tagged With: Military, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

RAMM holds the leading collection of prehistoric material from Devon, with objects spanning the period from c.500,000 years ago to the Roman ...

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Filed Under: Devon Tagged With: Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Roman Legionary Museum

Step back in time at the National Roman Legion Museum and explore life in a far-flung outpost of the mighty Roman Empire. Wales was the furthest ...

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Filed Under: Gwent Tagged With: Military, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Roman Baths And Pump Room

The Roman Baths is below the modern street level and has four main features, the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman bath house and finds from ...

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Filed Under: Avon Tagged With: Museums, Roman, Sandford Award Winners

River And Rowing Museum

Permanent Wind in the Willows exhibition heralds the return of Mr Toad, Ratty, Badger and Mole to the banks of the River Thames. The Treasures ...

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Filed Under: Berkshire Tagged With: Art Galleries, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

The Red House

The Red House, West Yorkshire Delightful 1830's cloth merchant's home with fascinating Brontë connections. Charlotte Brontë visited often and ...

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Filed Under: Yorkshire Tagged With: Houses, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Royal Air Force Museum

The Royal Air Force has a long and distinguished history. Founded in April 1918 by Lord Trenchard who instigated the amalgamation of the Royal Flying ...

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Filed Under: Shropshire Tagged With: Military, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Ripon Musuems

The Yorkshire Law and Order Museums Law and Order Trail Discover law and order history through Ripon's building treasures associated with the ...

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Filed Under: Yorkshire Tagged With: Attraction, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

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