Self Led Trail Resources
Travel through our 11 galleries with our bespoke trails on curriculum-based areas of history, science, PSHCE and design. Focus on one theme or explore several in a day.
All self-led visits include a full day ticket for each student, access to our galleries and self-led trails as well as our on-gallery programme of changing exhibitions.
Want to book a visit?
Contact our team. Students must be provided with school or museum self-led trails before entering the galleries – please download the relevant trail for your visit below and print the number you need. Please note self-led tours are suitable for those aged 6 and up.
Primary Trails – Open Wide – Key Stage 1 and 2
Who looks after you? From your sibling to your school nurse, so many people work together to keep you healthy and look after you when you’re poorly. Learn about the importance of self care, effective ways to stay healthy, and discover careers in healthcare.
History is all around us A whistle stop self-led tour of the museum, focusing on the use of different source materials and historical enquiry skills along the way.
Medical Innovations This trail takes you on a journey of medical invention, looking at how we’ve overcome medical challenges in the past and how medical engineers are helping to find solutions to modern-day problems.
Secondary and Above Trails – Scrub Up – Key Stage 3 and 4+
Who looks after you? From your sibling to your school nurse, so many people work together to keep you healthy and look after you when you’re poorly. Learn about the importance of self care, effective ways to stay healthy, and discover careers in healthcare.
Public Health Travel back through time to meet key figures in the fight against disease and learn how its history can help us inform the very current issues we face today. Ideal for those focusing on public health through the ages.
Pain, pus and blood A gruesome trail following the three main problems in the history of medicine – pain, infection and blood loss. From preanaesthetic horrors in our Victorian Operating Theatre to the ‘Cutting Edge’ of modern surgery.
Medical Innovations This trail takes you on a journey of medical invention, looking at how we’ve overcome medical challenges in the past and how medical engineers are helping to find solutions to modern-day problems.
Bugs, bloods and drugs Test student’s knowledge while encouraging engagement with our museum galleries. Designed to be relevant for all exam boards and a great way to introduce or revise the topic of Disease for GCSE Biology. Can be used along side our ‘Deadly Diseases and Industrious Infections’ Tour.
Health and social care highlights Based on the BTEC qualification, this museum trail focuses on Human Lifespan Development, careers in the healthcare sector and elements of public health.
Disability: From inaction to fashion Disability history is the history of all people. This trail highlights some individual’s accounts of lived experience with disability, aspects of how people with disabilities have been viewed and treated by medical professionals and society, as well as changing contributing factors towards the causes of disability in the past. This trail is not comprehensive. We invite you to centre the experiences of disabled people and all marginalized people while viewing the galleries and exhibitions.
Contact Us
Need help preparing for your trip? Contact: [email protected] or call 0113 244 4343