Castles as Homes - Museum Sessions

Key Stage 1, Whole Day Visit "I like going on the roof and I liked building a fireplace" Pupil, All Saints Primary School

Castles as Homes

An exciting day exploring Colchester Castle as a home. Wearing colourful tabards your children will become trainee knights for the day. Through storytelling, trails and hands-on activiities they experience what it might have been like to live in the Castle. 

Package B: Gallery trail + story tour*

  • with a Knight or Lady of the Castle, children explore hidden parts of the Castle
  • climb the Great Stairs for a birds-eye view from the roof
  • complete the challenges on the Castle I-spy trail

Package C: Gallery trail + story tour* + hands-on Castle life activity

This package is temporarily unavailable until April 2014.  Instead why not book onto our 'Knight School' sessions which run in the castle between 19th and 22nd March 2013?

An active whole day visit that will inspire your children and fire their imagination.

*Lift access in the Castle is limited to the galleries. An alternative story tour is available for children who are unable to access the roof.