Booking Your Visit

The Vindolanda Museum and the Roman Army Museum are planning to fully open on May 17th 2021 in line with the UK government restrictions. Please check here for the most up to date information on current covid restrictions.

School Booking Request Form

Booking your Visit

To book a visit please complete our online School Booking Request Form. If your dates are available you will receive an email confirmation of your booking. If you would like to check availability or discuss any aspects of your visit you can call and speak to a member of our staff on 014434 344 277.

Familiarisation Visit

We highly recommend that you make a pre-visit to our site and museums to plan your time before the big day? We offer pre-visit vouchers for 2 adults and 2 children (we know most teachers have to do this in their own time) to any school who has booked with us. Please ask for one when making your booking.

Risk Assessments

The Vindolanda Trust has produced notes to help you with your risk assessments to the sites. Click on the link below for our hazard identification information sheet.

Hazard Identification Sheet

2021 Group Prices for groups of 15 or more
	Adult Group	Senior / Student Group	Child Group
Vindolanda Standard	£7.65	£7.20	£4.25
Roman Army Museum Standard	£6.52	£6.08	£3.25
Combined ticket for both sites	£11.34	£10.62	£6.00

Free adult places

We offer 1 free adult to every 10 children. Any additional adults would enter at the child price.

School Booking Request Form

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Roman Pottery Demonstration

1st - 3rd June 2021
Meet Potted History's Graham Taylor at Roman Vindolanda. See how Romans made their pots and learn about the Roman pottery of Vindolanda.

Additional Resources

Want to take your class on a Wall walk? Would they like to play an app while at Vindolanda? Need some extra images to help them see the past. Click here for additional resources.
The Missing Dead App

A game based on an unsolved mystery at Vindolanda. Follow Marcus as he investigates this mystery in the Roman times and learn what questions the archaeologists still have today.
For Teachers

All you need to know about bringing a school group to visit our sites. Here you can find information about or programme, hazard identification sheets, facilities, and FAQs for your visit.
Worksheets

We offer three themes for your visits to our sites, the Roman War Machine, Things we share and What have the Romans done for us. Each theme has worksheets for the children to complete during their visit.

Roman Leather Toy Mouse Discovered

Curatorial staff at Roman Vindolanda make a lockdown discovery of an ancient leather toy mouse, which had been hidden in amongst the ancient scrap leather recovered from the site.
Brigomaglos

Was the end of Roman Britain the end of Vindolanda? Our journey into discovering more about sub-Roman Vindolanda started with the discovery of the probable war-band leader of the site from the 5th or 6th centuries, a man called ‘Brigomaglos’ which was discovered over 130 years ago.
Home Learning

Activity sheets for home learning fun. From Roman cooking ideas to spot the difference and much more, there is something for everyone.
The Praetorium

Director of Excavations Andrew Birley takes us through the fascinating history of the grandest house at Vindolanda and what some of the amazing discoveries that have come from it tell us about the people who lived there.
Colin's Top 10

Deputy CEO Colin Galloway gives us his top 10 about the Vindolanda Trust from artefacts to spaces.
Severan Skulls

Dr Trudi Buck takes a closer look at the human skull unearthed during the 2018 excavation of the Severan fort ditch at Vindolanda.
Roman Vindolanda Fort & Museum

Visit Roman Vindolanda today and you will find one of the North East’s most famous and not to be missed tourist attractions lying in the beautiful landscape of Hadrian's Wall Country. Formerly a key military post on the northern frontier of Britain, Vindolanda is the home of Britain's 'Top Treasure' - the Vindolanda Writing Tablets - and is one Europe's most important Roman archaeological sites, with live excavations taking place every year.
The 2021 Vindolanda Excavations

The Vindolanda excavations begin again on 29th March. The team are excited to get back in the trenches and welcome back local volunteers to the site with more joining as the season progresses. Marta Alberti gives us a snapshot of where the excavations are and what they hope to achieve this year.
Ancient timber posts

Both visitors and volunteers have been very curious as to what those beautiful timber posts sticking out of the ground are. Here is what the archaeologists have concluded so far.
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