Plan Your School Visit

Tuesday – Friday during term time. Check our what’s on calendar for Eureka! term dates and book in advance.

We're closed on Mondays during term-time!

Our current prices are:
Gallery visits: £6 per child
Programme visits: 7.25 per child

Additional adults: £6 each
Calderdale Schools get 50% off!

One of our Enablers will greet your group.
Your main group leader will check in at our Groups Desk outside, confirm exact numbers and sort out final payment. We’ll give your group a welcome talk – including some of the important things you need to know about visiting Eureka!

Please try to stick to your confirmed arrival time. We have lots of groups visiting on any given day so unfortunately, we can’t admit groups into the museum early.

Yes. We will have booked an undercover lunch area for you 30 minutes. You can bring your own packed lunches or pre-order lunch boxes from our Café.

You will need to pay a 50% deposit within 2 weeks of making your booking. The remaining balance is due on arrival for your final number of children/adults.

If payment is not received before or on arrival, a £20 invoice charge will be added.

Yes. We require that teachers and adults remain in supervision of their children at all times.

This is part of our Safeguarding Policy, to ensure that everyone has a safe and fun visit. Please also remember that our museum is open to general visitors, often with very young children, and ensure that your pupils are not left unattended or allowed to wander around Eureka! alone.

Please note that we reserve the right to ask groups to leave the museum in the event of severely disruptive behaviour.

A Gallery Visit includes a focus hour in one of our themed galleries, followed by discovery time to explore the rest of the museum.

A Programme Visit includes a 30min to 1 hour workshop or science show, hosted and run by our trained Enablers, followed by discovery time to explore the museum.

In both instances, our Enablers are on-hand throughout the museum to enhance and support your visit. Eureka! isn’t the kind of museum where you need a tour – instead your children might meet a doctor, dentist, nurse, policeman, scientist, musician or explorer in our hands-on themed galleries.

It depends:
Nursery & Reception: 1 free adult for every 3 paying children
KS1 & KS2: 1 free adult for every 5 paying children

When you book, we’ll agree an itinerary with you in advance. If you need to change this, please let us know as soon as possible and give us a call on 01422 330012. We’ll try to accommodate you if we can but it is tricky to change this on the day.

Don’t panic – traffic jams happen!

Just call our main number on 01422 330069 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 want it, of course! We can book a timeslot for you in the Gift Shop as part of your trip itinerary. Or, if you’d prefer, you can pre-order goody bags for your pupils.

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

Visit the Access Information page on our main website for detail information.

You are welcome to amend your numbers right up to the day of your visit as we will only charge you for the number of adults/children who have arrived.

You will need to pay your deposit based on your provisional numbers.

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 so not an Annual Pass upgrade.

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.

We run regular Home Educator days, including programmes and activities just for home educated children.

Visit the Home Educator page on our main website for more information and to subscribe to our Home Educator mailing list.

There's no limit, though please note that we offer free adult places on the following ratios and any additional adults cost £6 each.

Nursery & Reception: 1 free adult for every 3 paying children
KS1 & KS2: 1 free adult for every 5 paying children

Yes! All Calderdale Schools get 50% off the cost of schools visits. Just let us know when you book!