Plan Your School Visit

School bookings are available Tuesdays - Fridays during term time.

Our current prices are:
£300 excl. VAT per class (of up to 35 children)
£360 per class incl. VAT

You must pay a 50% deposit within 2 weeks of making your booking. The remaining balance is due either in advance or on the day of your visit.
If payment is not received before or on arrival, a £20 invoice charge will be added.

Read our full Schools Terms & Conditions

Please contact us as soon as possible if you need to cancel your booking. The amount of refund to which you are entitled depends on how much notice you give us:

More than 4 weeks: Full refund
Less than 4 weeks: 50% refund – effectively surrendering your deposit.

If cancellation is due to circumstances outside your control such as extreme weather or coronavirus related, we will endeavour to change your booking to another suitable date.

If we have to cancel for any reason (e.g. the museum is forced to close) we can either look to rearrange your visit for a later date or reimburse any fees or deposit paid in full.

In order to manage the flow of groups around the museum we stagger the arrival and departure times and each group follows a set itinerary.

If you need to change this, please let us know as soon as possible:

Halifax: bookings@eureka.org.uk or call 01422 330012
Wirral: groups@eureka.org.uk or call 0151 323 0050

We'll do our best to fulfill your request, however please note that we have limited flexibility, particularly if all other slots for that day have been booked up.

See the 'What's On' pages for updated programme information.

You will be met by one of our trained Enablers, who'll run you through the plan for the day and can answer any questions you have.

Your main group leader should sort out any final payment required. We’ll give your group a welcome talk – including some of the important things you need to know about visiting Eureka! – before taking you into the museum to begin your visit.

Please try to stick to your confirmed arrival time. We will be operating quite a strict timetable for the day to ensure that groups are suitably spread out across the museum.

Don’t panic – traffic jams happen!

Just call to let us know that you’re running late, and roughly by how long (if you know) and we’ll do our best to ensure that your class doesn’t lose out.

If you arrive early, you can either play outside until you are due to enter or possibly come inside if there is room.

We have large metal trolleys available for you to store coats, bags and lunches in. We’ll have them ready for you when you get here.

Not quite, you will have a trained members of staff (your Enabler) who will look after you during your visit. Once in a gallery area your Enabler won't lead any activity as such, but they will help the children get the most out of the exhibits. Your chosen science show will be led by a member of our team.

A visit to the Gift shop isn't included in the standard school itinerary but can be added if you would like to - please contact us as soon as possible to arrange a suitable time.

Alternatively, if you're visiting Halifax you can pre-order goody bags for your pupils for just £3.50 each. Download and fill in our Goody Bag Order Form.

We’re VERY proud to offer two fully accessible venues, with a range of support and facilities available for disabled visitors, including a Changing Places facility, chill out room and more.

Please contact the Play & Learning team to discuss if you need to make any changes to your booking. A slight reduction in numbers will not affect the overall cost of your visit as bookings are taken for classes of up to 35 children and are charged accordingly. However, an increase in numbers may incur additional costs and we will need to check to see if we can accommodate this.

No. Annual Passes are for general museum entry only, so cannot be used for school visits.

No. School bookings are for day admission only, and do not include an Annual Pass upgrade.

No, though we run regular Home Educator days at both of our venues regularly.

Yes! Risk assessments can be found in our 'Resources' section.