Booking Your Visit

The Vindolanda Fort & Museum and the Roman Army Museum open in line with the UK government restrictions.

School Booking Request Form 2023-2024

Booking your Visit

To book a visit please complete our online School Booking Request Form above. 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 01434 344 277.

2023 Opening dates & times

For opening dates & times visit our FAQs

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 3 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

2023-2024 Group Prices for groups of 15 or more
	Adult Group rate	Child Group rate
Vindolanda Standard	£11.25	£5.40
Roman Army Museum Standard	£7.20	£4.50
Combined ticket for both sites	£14.50	£8.00

Free adult places

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

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Become a Friend

Become a member of the Friends of Vindolanda which helps support our work all year round and gives you access to both our sites Roman Vindolanda Fort & Museum and the Roman Army Museum & Magna Fort.
Saturnalia Light Festival

1st December - 31st December
Roman Vindolanda
Join us for our annual lighting of the gardens at Vindolanda this year we are focusing on the festival of Saturnalia and how it might have inspired some of our modern day traditions. Gardens are lit daily with specific days for Saturnalia events.
Castrum: Vindolanda Excavations 2024 - 2028

Learn about what our research aims are for the 2024-2028 excavation seasons. What is an SMC and why do we need one? A closer look at why we are excited about our next phase of excavation at Vindolanda Roman Fort.
Roman Pottery

What is it? What was it used for? How was it made? How does it help the archaeologists understand the people of the past? Roman pottery and all you need to know about it.

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.

Tickets

How to visit Vindolanda Roman Fort and Museum and the Roman Army Museum. This page will take you through the new systems we have in place for visiting our sites, what is open and how to visit.
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.
Roman Army Museum

Lying in magnificent countryside next to a sweeping section of Hadrian's Wall and based at the site of Magna Roman Fort, the Roman Army Museum is an authentic and dramatic tribute to Rome’s extraordinary military legacy. Step into the life of a Roman soldier and experience life on the front line of Emperor Hadrian’s formidable British frontier.
Booking and Visiting FAQ's

Have you got questions about what to expect when you arrive or how to book? Take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions page which answers some of our visitors most popular queries.
Getting here

How to find us no matter how you like to travel. Whether biking, busing or marching, make your journey as smooth as possible and enjoy more time with us.
Day Planner

This is a suggested day planner for your visit to Roman Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum.
Luna, Moon Goddess

Volunteer blog - Jackie James
The ancient Roman moon goddess, Luna, derives her name from the Latin lucere, meaning ‘to shine’ and was seen not only as the divine embodiment of the moon but also the female counterpart of the sun, Sol.
Work for us

Find out about any opportunities to join the award winning teams at Vindolanda and the Roman Army Musuem. We currently have three new fixed term posts with the Vindolanda Trust- Part of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site and based at the Roman Site of Magna.
Book a Place

Find out about what's involved, how to participate and when you can see the digging taking place. We are now fully booked for the 2024 Excavation season.
Local Accommodation

There is a vast range of places to stay near to Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum with all budgets catered for.

Carved stone depicting mystery horseman uncovered.

A beautifully carved sandstone relief which depicts a naked male figure holding a spear stood in front of a horse/donkey has been uncovered during the annual excavations at the Roman fort of Vindolanda near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Read more