Factory Visits & Industry

Fuel learning across the curriculum with a visit to the National Coal Mining Museum and give your pupils a unique experience they will never forget.

Our historic colliery buildings, interactive galleries and the chance to go underground in a real coal mine provide a creative learning environment where pupils can investigate the past, solve a scientific problem, handle objects and enjoy the great outdoors.

Whether you are studying local history, looking for STEM activities or inspiration for a literacy or art project the Museum has so much to offer you and your pupils.

This is the advanced design and engineering facility and home to Land Rover design. It also boasts the UK's largest hybrid engineering team. It is also the Global headquarters of JLR.

Here you'll find the design studios, chassis and body engineering, CAD workstations, a virtual-reality suite, climatic wind tunnels, rig-test and engine test beds, an electro-magnetic chamber and materials laboratories. There is also an extensive test track and off-road testing. 

Get your hands inky at this living museum of a thriving printing firm in the Borders, whose premises were more or less unchanged for over a century.

Try your hand at being a printer's apprentice to learn the almost forgotten art of letterpress printing and typesetting.

Schools are welcomed and visits are very much tailored to suit the needs and requirements of the school.

The print works offers scope on a variety of topics and in the past we have successfully run drama, drawing and of course printing workshops.

Join us in the historic Potteries: take a tour of our atmospheric Victorian factory, see our beautiful wares being made, then try your hand at decorating your own pot in our studio. Relax in the cafe, wander in the walled garden, then shop for factory seconds or delightful gifts.

Factory Tours