Learning

Bradford District Museums & Galleries’ Learning Team offers schools a wide range of curriculum-linked workshops at our inspiring sites.

Bradford Industrial Museum Learning Offer

Bradford Industrial Museum

Pupil Takeover

Duration 2 hr

Price £150

Let your pupils take over the museum! Support the development of career-based skills as pupils work with museum staff to carry out behind the scenes tasks

Bradford Industrial Museum

Cliffe Castle Museum

Bolling Hall Museum

We work at the Museum

Duration 1.5 hr

Price £127

A fun, immersive workshop which allows pupils to take on the role of a museum/ gallery employee

Bradford Industrial Museum

Museum Explorer

Duration 1 hr

Price £81

Children become explorers to see and discover machines, cars and even trains using drawing, movement, sticking and printing ! Ideal for a first visit to a museum in Reception or year 1.

Bradford Industrial Museum

A Local History Experience: A Victorian Classroom

Duration 2 hour – Full day

Price £127 – £150

As local mill-working children, pupils will experience lessons at Moorside Board School including copywriting with dip pens, using slates and singing period songs.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Weaving in the Mill: A Material Journey

Duration 1.5 hour – Full Day

Price £102 – £150

Pupils get ‘hands on’ with the basic processes by which the fleece of a sheep is turned into cloth.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Cliffe Castle Museum

Bolling Hall Museum

The Art & Science of Noticing

Duration 1.5 hour

Price £102

A workshop which encourages pupils to respond to the museum and gallery objects which inspire them.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Cliffe Castle Museum

Bolling Hall Museum

The Art & Science of Noticing

Duration 1.5 hour

Price £102

A workshop which encourages pupils to respond to the museum and gallery objects which inspire them.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Cliffe Castle Museum

Bolling Hall Museum

The Art & Science of Noticing

Duration 1.5 hour

Price £102

A workshop which encourages pupils to respond to the museum and gallery objects which inspire them.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Toy Detective

Duration 1 hour

Price £81

Using toys from the past 100 years pupils explore the working mechanisms and everyday materials of toys.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Let’s Explore Transport

Duration 1.5 hour – Full Day

Price £102 – £150

Pupils go on their own transport journey throughout the museum using maps, role play and our amazing transport collection.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Great Grandma’s Washday Memories’

Duration 1.5 hour

Price £102

In a typical Bradford back-to-back house, pupils have a ‘hands on’ washday experience using washboards, possers, dolly blue and the mangle

Learning with Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Let’s Explore Cartwright Hall 2025

Duration 2 hr

Price £127

This dynamic workshop is designed to link with key works of art in the changing exhibitions at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery during 2025.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Based on traditional fairytales and using artwork from our changing exhibitions in 2025 this workshop has lots of opportunities for speaking, listening, mark-making and working collaboratively together with providing a great introduction to looking at real artwork.

Cliffe Castle Museum

Cave Baby

Duration 1.5 hr

Price £102

Available on : 24, 25, 26 and 27 June 2025 In this fun workshop using the British Museum exhibition as inspiration children will immerse themselves in the world of ‘Cave Baby’ through storytelling, drama, movement and painting

Cliffe Castle Museum

Dinosaur Explorer

Duration 1.5 hour

Price £102

Pupils will explore dinosaur features by looking at and handling real dinosaur fossils. They will be able to explore other creatures who left fossils behind.

Our Learning Offer

Learning in the Classroom

We offer a range of classroom resources that allow your pupils to connect to, experience, and be inspired by our collection.

Image shows a young girl with a clipboard in the housebody at Bolling Hall

Learning on Site

Bradford District Museum and Galleries’ Learning Team are taking bookings for on-site workshops.

Learning

Our four sites have wide-ranging collections that can be used to enhance classroom learning across a variety of subjects and give pupils enriching experiences which add value way beyond the visit.

Accessibility

Bradford District is home to some of the most exciting museums and galleries in Yorkshire. From the Baroque splendour of Cartwright Hall Art Gallery to the spectacular building of Keighley’s Cliffe Castle Museum, there is always something new to do or see, and admission is free!

Learning in the Classroom

We offer a range of classroom resources that allow your pupils to connect to, experience, and be inspired by our collection.

Artsmark

Bradford District Museums & Galleries is proud to be supporting schools and education settings on their Artsmark journey, inspiring children and young people to create, experience, and participate in great arts and culture.