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Featured exhibitions
Story Explorers: A journey through imaginary worlds
Take a free family trip through our collection and discover the stories behind objects which take you to wondrous places. Designed for children 2 – 7.
Secret Maps
Who shapes your world? Who decides what you see? What hides behind grid lines?
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Research Matters Primary
Start developing your class's research skills in this session touching on information literacy, observation, analysis and more.
Listen Up! Sound Lab
Students use a range of techniques to create, collect, amplify, mix, layer and record sound in this hands-on session.
Sounds Familiar? Online
Uncover ways of analysing speech, accent and dialect by diving into oral history collections from the National Sound Archive through this online workshop.
Once Upon a Time: Make a Story
Students will create a new story as a class, developing their literacy and language skills through imaginative play.
Once Upon a Time: Tell a Story
Students take a well-known story and develop storytelling skills through performance, strengthening their literacy and language skills.
Self-guided school visits
These flexible visits enable you to lead your group to explore our public spaces and Treasures Gallery.
Develop your Writing
Become more confident in academic writing.
Making Artists’ Books
Learners will make their own artists' books in this hands-on workshop.
Listen Up! Dive into Sound
Hear recordings from our sound archive, from environmental sounds and speeches.