Contact our booking team
Please book your visit using the online form.
If you have any additional queries around your visit, please contact us by email or telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 6177
School visits at Tring
Inspire your students' curiosity about the natural world and explore the variety of life on Earth.
We offer a range of hands-on workshops and gallery activities, closely tied to the National Curriculum.
Both self-guided visits and workshops must be booked. We recommend booking at least six weeks in advance.
We recommend a donation of £2 per child to help support our vital work to look after nature and to provide our learning programme.
Entry and booking
Workshops and activities are listed on their dedicated pages, linked below. You can book a maximum of one workshop per class.
To make a booking, please view the guidance on the Essential information for schools page, then use our online booking form.
Our loan box service of themed specimens is also available to book.
Workshops and activities by Key Stage
Key Stage 1 and Early Years
Workshops include looking at animals living in Polar habitats and how fossils are formed.
Key Stage 2
Workshops include Evolution, Skeletons and Classification.
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5
Your class can discover the importance of biodiversity and what is threatening it today.
SEND students
Creative opportunities and a special workshop for SEND students.
Loan box service
Inspire your students and enhance their learning by borrowing natural history specimens from the Museum.
Supporting educators
Home Educated groups
Home Educated groups have access to the full range of educational activities at Tring.
Teachers' sessions
Free sessions to find out more about the Museum's offer for schools and how this can support your students' learning.
Tring Teachers' newsletter
You can sign up to our Tring Teachers' newsletter to hear abour our activities and offers.
Schemes to boost learning in your classroom
National Education Nature Park programme
Empower your students to connect with nature and take action for a greener future with free resources and support from the National Education Nature Park.
Green Tree Schools Award
Get your school involved in the Green Tree Schools Award, run by the Woodland Trust.