THE UNIVERSE AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE

Welcome to the National Space Centre - a visitor attraction, educational facility and a research establishment dedicated to space.

With a vast array of interactive challenges, audio-visual presentations and hundreds of artefacts charting mankind's desire to reach beyond the Earth, the National Space Centre is unlike any other attraction in the UK.

Our facilities bring together many strands of the National Curriculum at each of the Key Stages including science, ICT, maths, literacy, history, geography and citizenship. As well as the centre's galleries we offer a wide range of educational programmes and resources including the Challenger Learning Centre, workshops and our acclaimed Space Theatre shows. To supplement your visit we have a range of trails to guide you around the galleries and on-line support materials.

The National Space Centre also runs the Space Academy, which is a programme designed to harness the inspirational subjects of space and climate change and use them as contexts for a variety of new student programmes. These are tightly focused on the secondary curriculum and designed to boost student engagement and attainment in their STEM curriculum subjects – and geography too.

And if you cannot come to us we come to you… our Outreach programme includes workshops, loan boxes and the AZ Stardome.

Of course, we wouldn’t expect you to book without taking a look for yourself. Throughout the year we hold regular open evenings and INSET days that are free to teachers. If you can’t make those then give our Bookings Team a ring and arrange to look over the centre in your own time.

Could this be the voyage of discovery your class has been waiting for? The only limit to your learning is your imagination…

Scouts and Brownies are also invited to join us for spectacular space activities and bespoke days catering for individual badges.

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