UK Home Education Resources:
Museums, Events & Online Learning
As a former home educator and flexi-schooler, I understand how valuable it is to find places that truly welcome home educating families. This guide brings together a wide range of UK museums, heritage sites, and online platforms that offer meaningful learning experiences — from special home ed days and group-friendly visits to digital resources you can access from home
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Offers termly Home Educator Days with hands-on exhibits and bookable workshops focused on key science topics.
A science centre with regular Home Ed Days, interactive exhibits and opportunities for creative scientific exploration.
National Space Centre (Leicester)
Explores astronomy and space exploration through immersive exhibits, planetarium shows, and dedicated Home Ed sessions.
Runs popular Home Education Days filled with hands-on science exhibits and engaging workshops.
Welcomes home educators with planetarium shows and science-themed trails tailored to different age groups.
Hosts STEM-focused Home Ed Days exploring the history and mechanics of transport innovation.
Crossness Engines Trust (London)
Offers educational visits for home ed groups to discover Victorian engineering and London’s sewage heritage.
Focuses on railway history and engineering with hands-on sessions and family-friendly activities.
The National Museum of Computing
Presents computing history through interactive exhibits and Home Ed Experience Days covering STEM topics.
Life Science Centre (Newcastle)
Organises themed science days with live shows, exhibits, and hands-on activities designed for home educators.
Magna Science Adventure Centre
Offers exciting STEM learning in a former steelworks with zones dedicated to air, water, fire, and earth.
Hosts immersive workshops and trails exploring astronomy, space science, and the iconic Lovell Telescope.
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Provides dedicated Home Educator Days and downloadable resources to support learning across ancient and world history.
Offers Home Educator Days and curriculum-linked sessions exploring medieval life, royal history, and the Tower’s dramatic past.
Home educators can explore Tudor life and architecture, with themed resources and events throughout the year.
Offers Home Education Days and family-friendly sessions to explore Shakespeare’s life, work, and legacy.
Hosts sessions and trails for home educators to explore Roman culture and archaeology in an immersive setting.
Loan boxes with replica artefacts, teacher notes, and hands-on activities are available to support home learning at home or in groups.
York Archaeology – Virtual Outreach
Offers live, interactive online sessions tailored to home educators, covering prehistory, Romans, Vikings and more.
York Archaeology – Online Resources
Free downloadable packs, videos and activities covering archaeology and British history.
Ancient House Museum (Thetford)
Runs regular workshops for home educators with hands-on historical activities and reenactments.
Offers guided visits and downloadable learning resources tailored to home educating families studying Victorian literature and life.
Hosts regular Home Ed days exploring rural life, historic buildings, and traditional skills from different eras.
Immersive Home Educator Days let families explore North East life in the 1820s, 1900s, 1940s, and 1950s through living history.
Offers self-guided and facilitated learning experiences aboard Brunel’s historic steamship and accompanying dockyard museum.
British Schools Museum (Hitchin)
Home Ed groups can book immersive Victorian schoolroom lessons and workshops that bring education history to life.
Herbert Art Gallery (Coventry)
Regularly hosts themed Home Educator Days with art trails, archaeology, history topics, and interactive activities.
Runs sessions on transport history and British motorsport, with hands-on exhibitions and aircraft to explore.
Offers curriculum-linked workshops and downloadable packs exploring local history, artefacts, and archaeology.
Chertsey Museum – St Anne’s Hill History Walk
A themed outdoor workshop exploring the local landscape and history, tailored to home education groups.
Provides hands-on workshops and curated learning days exploring Bucks history, Anglo-Saxons, art, and science.
Offers deep mine tours and curriculum-linked Home Ed workshops exploring the industrial revolution and coal mining life.
Explore a recreated Victorian workhouse, rural life exhibits and historic farming with regular Home Ed sessions.
Delivers workshops and themed trails for home educators based on local history and museum collections.
Hosts Home Ed Days exploring crafts, transport and industry through interactive exhibits and heritage skills.
Welcomes home educating groups with access to interactive displays, aircraft, and aviation-themed sessions.
Curriculum-linked sessions for home educators focus on medieval life, art, and archaeological collections.
Provides downloadable resources for home educators exploring domestic life and interiors across centuries.
Occasional Home Ed workshops explore fine art, armour, and decorative arts in a beautiful historic house setting.
Provides a vast library of online resources organised by time period and topic, including games, objects and films.
Loan boxes, online activities and occasional workshops support home educators exploring Roman and medieval Gloucester.
Offers seasonal Home Ed events and tailored activities linking history, community heritage and local collections.
Workshops and trails support home educators exploring the museum’s local history and archaeology collections.
Runs termly events across different museum sites including costume, history, and local collections for home educators.
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Offers outdoor learning trails, forest activities and seasonal events across the UK. Some sites host Home Ed events or offer downloadable resources.
Local branches across the UK run nature reserves, workshops and outreach for families, plus educational materials for learning about conservation and habitats.
Supports home learning with free activity packs and national events like the Big Garden Birdwatch. Many reserves welcome self-led visits.
Offers outdoor activity packs, tree ID guides, and printable resources ideal for seasonal nature studies at home or in local woodlands.
Norfolk Council Family Activities
Includes geocaching trails, Munzee hunts, and printable local maps. A useful resource for building local studies into outdoor exploration.
Several Surrey museums collaborate on workshops and events, including nature-focused days at rural or outdoor museum sites.
Combines historic rural life with live farm animals and nature trails; regular Home Ed days often feature nature-themed sessions.
Roman Baths – Archway Learning Centre (Bath)
Offers occasional sessions focused on ancient water engineering, Roman environment, and natural resources in historical context.
Milestones Museum – Victorian Gardens
While a history museum, Milestones’ recreated gardens and living history exhibits offer links to environmental education and sustainability.
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Offers specially priced, self-guided Home Ed visits with downloadable learning packs focused on conservation, animal habitats, and classification.
World Horse Welfare (Snetterton)
Free to visit, this equine rescue and education centre offers the chance to learn about horse care and welfare. Educational talks can be arranged for home ed groups.
Redwings Horse Sanctuary (Aylsham & Caldecott)
Welcomes self-guided visits with information boards, rescued horses and donkeys, and staff happy to engage home educators with welfare-focused learning.
Many lifeboat stations offer free educational tours or can arrange visits to home ed groups. Topics include sea safety, rescue operations and coastal geography.
A small but hands-on museum dedicated to RNLI hero Henry Blogg, offering immersive storytelling and local maritime history. Free entry.
Rural Life Living Museum (Surrey)
Features rare breeds, historic buildings, and hands-on workshops about farming, crafts, and countryside life. Hosts dedicated Home Ed sessions.
The Wild Place Project (Bristol Zoo Project)
Offers Home Ed Days combining animal encounters with learning on conservation and ecology in naturalistic habitats.
Eureka! Science + Discovery (Merseyside)
Although a STEM venue, the focus on the natural world, human biology and living systems ties closely to animal studies and wildlife themes.
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Offers an extensive range of workshops, digital resources and exhibitions exploring fashion, art, and design for learners of all ages.
Occasional Home Education Days explore fine art, sculpture, and armour in a beautifully preserved historic home with themed activities.
Free to enter and packed with hands-on resources for home educators exploring Tudor life, architecture, and garden design.
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (Coventry)
Runs regular Home Educator Days blending art, history, and archaeology through interactive exhibits and themed trails.
Offers downloadable resources for home educators exploring how domestic life and interiors have changed through the centuries.
Home ed families can access creative sessions and workshops linking history, local culture, and the arts.
Hosts seasonal Home Ed sessions exploring art, community heritage, and local creative histories through interactive displays.
Provides creative art and history workshops for home ed groups using museum artefacts and changing exhibitions.
Offers hands-on discovery sessions and downloadable packs for creative and cross-curricular learning inspired by natural history and ethnographic collections
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English Heritage – Education Visits
Offers free entry to many historic sites for home educating families, provided visits are booked at least 7 days in advance. Covers castles, prehistoric sites, abbeys, and more.
National Trust – Education Group Membership
Home educating families can access sites during term time with an educational membership (£41 per year). Booking policies vary by site.
Imperial War Museums – Home Learning Hub
Provides free online activities, weekly family challenges, and GCSE-friendly resources on both world wars, codebreaking, and home front history.
Day Out With The Kids – Home Ed Directory
Useful for finding home ed discounts, events and educational opportunities across UK attractions, including museums, zoos, and activity centres.
Marks & Spencer Archive (Leeds)
Offers engaging learning sessions and downloadable packs for home educators exploring retail, fashion history, and social change.
Tees Valley Museums – Environmental Resources
Features nature and sustainability-themed education packs suitable for home learning, based on museum collections in the North East.
UAL Creative Computing Institute – Tech Yard (London)
Runs free after-school clubs for 11–14-year-olds exploring coding, game design and creative technologies. Some sessions are open to home ed students local to South London.
Offers term-time home ed sessions at discounted rates, supporting social engagement and coordination skills in an active play environment.
[High Altitude & Gravity Trampoline Parks](no universal site; varies by location)
These venues often run regular home education jump sessions, including physical education-style activities at off-peak prices.
Marina Centre (Great Yarmouth)
Hosts dedicated home ed sessions in swimming, gym, climbing and games, with midweek discounted access.
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Eureka! The National Children’s Museum (Halifax)
Designed for ages 0–11, Eureka! offers regular Home Educator Days with interactive exhibits covering science, health, role play, and daily life.
Home educators can access a wide variety of free museum resources and bookable visits across multiple museum sites, including art, slavery, and maritime heritage.
Provide self-led and bookable workshops for home educators at locations including M Shed, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, and SS Great Britain.
Discover Bucks Museum (Aylesbury)
Offers multidisciplinary Home Ed sessions exploring local history, natural science, art, and archaeology.
Great North Museum: Hancock (Newcastle)
Hosts themed Home Ed Days with a wide range of exhibits including natural history, archaeology, and ancient civilisations.
Offers Home Ed days and digital resources that explore science, natural history, and world cultures through real artefacts and family-friendly interpretation.
STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway (Swindon)
Blends history, innovation, and hands-on STEM exploration, with regular Home Educator Days tailored to different key stages.
Museum of Technology (Thames Valley)
Displays working historical technology with occasional workshops and family-friendly events suitable for home educators.
Combines archaeology, art, and local heritage in its Home Ed programmes, including loan boxes and creative sessions.
The Novium Museum (Chichester)
Offers Roman and local history-themed Home Ed workshops, trails, and outreach sessions.
Although primarily designed for schools, many of the digital resources, trails and packs are easily adaptable for home learning.
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🖥️ Online Only or Digital Learning
👨👩👧 Self-Guided Visits or Booking for Home Ed Groups
🎟️ Home Ed Events, Days, or Workshops
🌍 Multi-site / National or Directory Listings