For schools

Meeting your students needs

The museum will be welcoming school visits when we open in September. Local schools and colleges are currently helping to develop a vibrant learning programme. Resources include handling boxes, history trails, interactives, talks, tours and a dedicated education learning space.

Local history, working lives, community building, shoe design, creativity, construction, fashion to fossils.

From 200-million-years ago to 200-years, and from Street around the globe to the world, the archive and museum will have you covered with the potential to engage and enhance your subject delivery. Immerse your students in primary historical sources as we bring history to life.

Explore our core packages, from guided museum visits to free resources to enhance your classroom learning, join us for a journey through time with strong links to the National Curriculum.

School resources

In the 200-years that have passed since the creation of Clarks shoes first Petersburg slipper, the world has seen trends in footwear come and go, and come again! From Desert boots to sandals and first shoes, we have walked, marched, strode and sashayed through an ever-changing world.

• First hand sources – Objects, images, fascinating stories
• Hands-on learning – handling boxes and interactive activities
• Stories, subjects and connections – explore a wide range of subjects, 200m year fossils, 200 years of history, making it matter now!
• Space to study – Education room, galleries and quiet corridor booths to study and reflect
• Space to roam – Garden, orchard and outdoor space
• Space to eat and refresh – Education room and family-friendly cafe room
• Space to parking  – car parking is included in the ticket price. Coach parking is available by arrangement