Learning on Site
Bradford District Museum and Galleries’ Learning Team are taking bookings for on-site workshops.
Learning on Site
Bradford District Museum and Galleries’ Learning Team are taking bookings for on-site workshops. Please see the video below for a snapshot of some of the things your pupils could experience!
Please see below for the list of the workshops at each of our sites. For further information about any of the workshops, please click on the link or email: learning@bradford.gov.uk.
If you are unable to visit us, details of other ways we can support your pupils’ learning are below the workshops list.
If you are planning to bring your pupils on a self-led visit to our museums, please still contact the Learning Team on learning@bradford.gov.uk so that we can give you information to help you with your visit.
Workshops by Key Stage
Bradford Industrial Museum
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
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
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
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.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
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
Duration 1 hr
Price £81
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.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration 2 hour
Price £127
Using artwork and artefacts pupils will explore the historic origins of Early Islamic civilisation, its influences and contribution to world culture.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration 2 hour
Price £127
Through looking at a range of Hockney artworks, pupils will investigate and try some of the different techniques and mediums Hockney works with.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Cliffe Castle Museum
Bolling Hall Museum
Duration 1.5 hr
Price £127
A fun, immersive workshop which allows pupils to take on the role of a museum/ gallery employee
Cliffe Castle Museum
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
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.
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 2 hours
Price £127
Take a journey down the Nile with a trader, finding out about the objects Ancient Egyptians used in their daily lives and the importance of the Nile to travel and trade.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Cliffe Castle Museum
Bolling Hall Museum
Duration 1.5 hr
Price £127
A fun, immersive workshop which allows pupils to take on the role of a museum/ gallery employee
Bolling Hall Museum
Duration 1 hour
Price £81
Pupils explore the legend through story-telling and guided activities.
Bolling Hall Museum
Duration 1 hour
Price £81
Using the setting of the hall as inspiration, pupils will find out more about the link between the Civil War and the legend of the Bradford Ghost.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Cliffe Castle Museum
Bolling Hall Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
A workshop which encourages pupils to respond to the museum and gallery objects which inspire them.
