School Visits
Inspire your students with dazzling objects, fascinating stories and world class art, with workshops linked directly to the national curriculum.
- Support your students to become lifelong cultural learners.
- Develop your students’ enquiry and oracy skills with experiences that can’t be replicated in the classroom.
- Enhance your teaching in the classroom with memorable activities that support your Cultural Capital aims.
- Access historical objects and original sources of evidence that aren’t on display to the public.
- Enjoy exclusive use of the Simmons Learning Room as your base for workshops and lunch space.
How do I book a school visit?
All schools visits must be booked at least one month in advance. Please take a look at our sessions below and use the online form to make your booking.
To help you to get the most from your schools visit, we recommend that you make a planning pre-visit to The Box. You can also download our Teachers Hazard Assessment below to help you to write your own risk assessment.
Climate Action: Plymouth’s Marine Citizens
In this inspiring session your students will discover how climate change is effecting Plymouth's National Marine Park. Exploring how the marine citizens of Plymouth are rising to the challenges of climate change through science, engineering and activism.
Bridges, Breakwaters, Lighthouses (STEAM)
Inspired by the amazing examples of engineering in Plymouth (including the lighthouse, the Breakwater and the Tamar Bridge), your students will become STEAM engineers.
Ancient Egypt
Can your students help our Curator of Archaeology explore a new box of Egyptian artefacts? Using enquiry and curation skills your class will create their own Egyptian display.
Prehistory: The Bronze Age at Whitehorse Hill
Witness your students become archaeologists, discovering the remarkable Bronze Age burial at Whitehorse Hill on Dartmoor. What can the uncovered artefacts tell us about people 4,000 years ago?
Plymouth’s Polar Explorers
Discover the adventures of Plymouth's famous polar explorer - Captain Robert Scott. Students will learn what it takes to lead an Antarctic expedition then and now!
World War II and the Blitz in Plymouth
Can your students become detectives? Use real objects and archives to uncover the truth of how the Blitz impacted Plymouth.
Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada have been sighted off the English coast! Enhance your student’s knowledge about Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada by exploring our key objects and archives connected to this fascinating and complex part of history.
Tudor and Elizabethan Plymouth: A Port of Discovery
In the Tudor and Elizabethan period, some amazing expeditions of discovery left and returned from Plymouth’s ports. Students will explore the navigation and cargo of these voyages and their impact on global trade today.
Evolution, Inheritance, Diversity
Introduce your students to the fascinating species that have made Plymouth their home, discovering over 35,000 years of evolution!
SENsational workshops
Our SENsational workshops for students with special educational needs and disabilities, including those with profound and multiple disabilities and ASC, are open to visits from a range of educational settings.
Mayflower: Legend & Legacy: Schools Workshop
Discover the story of the Mayflower exploring the people and events that led to the historic voyage across the Atlantic and its impact and legacy today.
Artist workshops
Give your students the chance to work with a practising artist to explore our visual arts collections, learn artistic techniques and develop their own creative responses.
Engineering: Smeaton’s Tower
In this day-long experience your students will visit The Box, to learn about the STEAM behind Plymouth’s remarkable engineering structures before visiting the iconic Smeaton’s Tower on Plymouth Hoe.
Legends and Landmarks
Introduce your students to important people in Plymouth's past and discover how their stories connect to local landmarks.
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