Eureka! The National Children's Museum
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an extraordinary fun-packed day out for families.
We are the only fully interactive museum totally dedicated to children aged 0-11 anywhere in the UK. Nothing is behind a glass cabinet! We have over 400 interactive, hands-on exhibits designed to inspire enquiring minds to find out about themselves and the world around them.
Discover 6 unique zones each with a different theme to explore. Make some noise and explore how music is created, experience the world of work and take over a child-sized town, and step inside giant body parts. Each zone is packed with equipment to explore, activities to do, and buttons to press. And with plenty of events throughout the year, from science experiments to interactive shows; it’s a different Eureka! experience every time.
Venue Type:
Museum
SoundGarden
- 1 January 2000 — 25 July 2019 *on now
A giant sensory sound garden provides an immersive environment for babies and young children to explore nature’s stage. Children can dress up and role play as garden animals in the Tree Trunk Theatre, babies can trigger sounds on a Dew Drop Xylophone inside a specially created Leaf Cradle, and toddlers can crawl inside a mischievous Magpie’s Nest and solve day and night-time puzzles in an overturned Plant Pot.
Suitable for
- 0-4
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/education/earlyyears/
Sound Space
- 1 January 2000 — 25 July 2019 *on now
Children help Orby the Alien understand and enjoy sound and music through a series of stateof-the-art hands-on exhibits and activities; content includes sources of sound and how they are detected, how sound travels through different media, pitch, instruments and composition.
NC Links: Science, Music, Maths, Literacy
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 5-6
- 7-10
Admission
Please visit www.eureka.org.uk for up to date prices
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Living & Working Together
- 1 January 2000 — 25 July 2019 *on now
Children can get behind the scenes in a life-sized House and Garage and take part in creative role play opportunities to discover how things work in the adult world.
NC Links: Science, Geography, Maths, D&T,Literacy and the EYFS
The Shop and The Bank in the Town Square provide real life scenarios for children to explore including buying food items in the shop with money drawn from the bank, working as a cashier, a manager or a security officer.
NC Links: Science, Geography, Maths, PSHE, Literacy and the EYFS
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 5-6
- 7-10
Admission
Please visit www.eureka.org.uk for up to date prices.
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Desert Discovery
- 1 January 2000 — 25 July 2019 *on now
A desert-themed environment offering babies and young children the opportunity to explore, build, create and communicate. Babies can explore their very own Baby Oasis, and young children can collect and move boulders using the Bucket Lift and build their own structures at Cactus Construction. Children can dress up as desert dwellers and share adventure stories around the fire pit, crawl inside a cosy cave, meet a Coyote and discover the differences between night and day.
Suitable for
- 0-4
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/education/earlyyears/
All About Me
- 29 March 2013 — 29 March 2023 *on now
All About Me has harnessed the very latest knowledge and techniques in playful learning to captivate, stimulate and challenge children in science, health and well-being. The gallery celebrates them as confident individuals who can live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives. Multi-sensory, hands-on exhibits encourage them to explore how their body works and imaginative spaces and activities invite
them to enjoy and understand how unique they are.
What makes them unique, with opportunities for measuring their height, stride and reach; zooming in to see their skin close up; discovering what they might look like when they’re older and finding out more about the ‘stuff’ they’re made of.
In Making Sense of My World, children will find out more about their fascinating brain and make sense of the senses by using their own. They can explore a giant blinking eye (who’s it following?), climb on the huge tongue (how tasty are they?) and look up a very surprising nose (watch out for the sneeze and the snot tanks!).
In the role-play Health Centre they can take on the roles of a Dentist (teaching their patients how to brush their teeth), a Doctor (checking x-rays and scanning the body) and a Midwife (scanning the mum’s tum). Then report on the latest health news live from the TV Studio.
In Move it, Shake it, children can follow the gurgling journey of food through the digestion system from the chew to the poo, discover how their body changes when they get active on the climbing wall and interactive pond, investigate nutritious diets at the picnic tables and create a tune from burps, sniffs, coughs and sneezes using sound beams.
NC Links: Science, PSHE
Suitable for
- 5-6
- 7-10
- 0-4
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Spark Gallery
- 1 January 2018 — 1 December 2029 *on now
Patternarium - Don’t miss the latest exhibition in the Spark gallery. Experience mind-blowing patterns in this brand NEW exhibition that mixes digital technology and mechanical machines.
Patternarium will be in the Spark Gallery from Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Standard entry or free with your Annual Pass
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 7-10
- 5-6
Admission
£12.95 for children aged 3 and over and adults, £5.25 for 1-2 year olds, free for under 1's.
Essential carers are free
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/event/patternarium/
Half-term Hullabaloo
- 16 — 24 February 2019 *on now
Packed full of extra activities including special guests Noisy Toys, with “The Acoustratron” – a monstrous mechanical-electromagnetic-acoustic noise engine. Phew!
Standard entry or free with your Annual Pass
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 7-10
- 5-6
- Especially for children
- Family friendly
Admission
Adult - £12.95
Children aged 3+ - £12.95
Children aged 1-2 years - £5.25
Children under 1 year - FREE
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/events/spacetrek/
British Science Week
- 8 — 15 March 2019
Experiments guaranteed to go with a bang and a chance to meet real-life experts keen to share their passion for all things scientific.
Standard entry or free with your Annual Pass.
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 7-10
- 5-6
- Family friendly
- Especially for children
Admission
Adult - £12.95
Children aged 3+ - £12.95
Children aged 1-2 years - £5.25
Children under 1 year - FREE
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/event/british-science-week/
Steampunk Science
- 6 — 28 April 2019
See a brand NEW steampunk inspired science show, get hands-on in our tinkering space, plus over the Easter weekend meet an Easter bunny with a difference.
Standard entry or free with your Annual Pass
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 7-10
- 5-6
- Family friendly
- Especially for children
Admission
Adult - £12.95
Children aged 3+ - £12.95
Children aged 1-2 years - £5.25
Children under 1 year - FREE
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/event/steampunk-science/
National Children's Day
- 12 May 2019 10am-5pm
Eureka! are supporting children’s right to play, with special guests and extra indoor activities.
Standard entry or free with your Annual Pass
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 7-10
- 5-6
- Family friendly
- Especially for children
Admission
Adult - £12.95
Children aged 3+ - £12.95
Children aged 1-2 years - £5.25
Children under 1 year - FREE
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/event/national-childrens-day/
Moon Mission
- 25 May — 2 June 2019
Celebrate 50 years since humans first landed on the moon by seeing a NEW space show and take part in astronaut training in a human gyroscope
Standard entry or free with your Annual Pass
Suitable for
- 0-4
- 7-10
- 5-6
- Family friendly
- Especially for children
Admission
Adult - £12.95
Children aged 3+ - £12.95
Children aged 1-2 years - £5.25
Children under 1 year - FREE
Website
https://www.eureka.org.uk/event/moon-mission/
Creative Journeys at Eureka!
Creative Journeys extend learning within a Eureka! gallery by providing pre, on-site and post visit activities which capture children’s natural skills of exploration, investigation and experimentation. Coordinated by a professionally trained member of the team, they can be pre-booked for a maximum of 35 children as part of your gallery time at Eureka! and last 1.5 hours, inclusive of:
• 20 minutes of imaginative and fun investigations using story and characterisation to set the scene
• 40 minutes of exhibit-linked tasks in your chosen gallery where the adults become the ‘ideas catchers’ for their team of investigators
• 30 minutes of exciting investigations which extend the Creative Jou
How to obtain
For availability and to make a booking please call 01422 330012 or email bookings@eureka.org.uk
Global Garden
http://www.eureka.org.uk/galleries/ourglobalgarden.htm
Explore the Our Global Garden gallery where you'll find gardens from all around the world, from the jungle to the arctic.
Things to do at Home
http://www.eureka.org.uk/Things to do at home
Have a go at home at some of the things we do hre at Eureka!
Eureka! The National Children's Museum
Discovery Road
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX1 2NE
England
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