Quarry Bank, lying in the Bollin Valley, overflows with the atmosphere of the Industrial Revolution. Experience life as a mill worker – a visit to the ...
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.
The Priest's House Museum
The Priest's House Museum is set in an historic town house where a series of period rooms takes the visitor back through the centuries. From the 17th ...
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Visit the world famous historic ships at the home of the Royal Navy. Go aboard HMS Victory, HMS Warrior 1860 and see the Mary Rose Museum for the best ...
Portland Castle
Overlooking Portland Harbour in Dorset stands one of Henry VIII’s finest coastal forts, built in the early 1540s to protect against French and Spanish ...
Pendennis Castle
Discover the wartime secrets of Cornwall’s greatest fortress. Pendennis Castle was built by King Henry VIII to defend against possible attack by Spain ...
Palace Stables Heritage Centre
The Palace Stables Heritage centre is a wonderfully restored 18th Century Stable Block, formerly part of the estate belonging to the Archbishop's of ...
Palace Of Holyroodhouse And The Queen’s Gallery
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence in Scotland of Her Majesty The Queen, stands at the end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile against the ...
Osborne House
Queen Victoria’s Palace by the Sea. Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s family home, is one of the most popular tourist attractions on the Isle of Wight. ...
Ordsall Hall
Closed until Easter 2011. Ordsall Hall dates back over 820 years. Throughout history it has been put to many uses - a family home, working men's club ...
Oakwell Hall & Country Park
An attractive Elizabethan manor house, set out as a family home of the 1690s and surrounded by 110 acres of country park. The Visitor Centre includes ...
Norton Priory
Norton Priory Museum & Gardens is a fantastic day out, with an award winning museum, excavated medieval ruins, the spectacular St Christopher statue, ...
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. ...