School visits to Tring
Inspire your students to ponder their place within the natural world and explore the variety of life. We offer workshops and self-guided visits.
Loans service
Our loans are an excellent way to bring your lessons to life. We have a range of themed boxes to use within a variety of curriculum areas including Science, Art, Language, Geography and History.
Each set is a box of six or more specimens, a fact file about the specimens and instructions on how to handle them.
A box can be used for multiple classes and may be loaned for one half-term (up to six weeks) at a time. It can be collected at and returned to the Museum at a mutually agreed date and time.
The Museum is a charity and its role is now more important than ever, to help support the Museum there is a recommended donation of £30 charge for a loan box.
Occasionally some of the specimens are damaged or are needed elsewhere. The Museum reserves the right to replace the specimens when necessary.
How to book a box
For more information about our loans or to book a loan, please contact our Learning and Events team at 020 7942 6177 or by email.
Before requesting a loan please read our terms and conditions and handling instructions (PDF 123kB).
To book a loan we will need to know the:
- school name and teacher responsible
- contact details, including email, telephone number and address where the specimens are to be stored
- dates the loan is required
- number of students using the loan
- age of the students
- subject area
Choose from 11 different boxes
The pictures and list are an example of what specimens you will receive.
Box 1: Birds 1
- tree sparrows
- robin
- kestrel
- yellow hammer
- wren
- goldfinch with chaffinch and yellowhammer
Box 2: Birds 2
- thrush
- freen woodpecker
- chaffinch
- whinchat
- coal tit
- ant tanager
Box 3: Local wildlife
Examine the wildlife of our local area with a variety of local birds, mammals and insects. Ideal for science, creative writing and art:
- red fox
- rabbit
- bank vole
- blue tit
- chaffinch and goldfinch
- dragonflies
- dragonfly nymph
- wall brown butterfly
- marble white butterfly
Boxes 4: Skulls 1
A variety of skulls ideal for studying science, diet or art:
- muntjac deer skull
- hunting dog skull
- badger skull
- cat skull
- rabbit skull
- crow skull
Box 5: Skulls 2
A variety of skulls ideal for studying science, diet or art:
- muntjac deer skull
- crocodile skull
- sheep skull
- cat skull
- squirrel skull
- macaque skull
Box 6: Butterflies
Suitable for older children for art purposes:
- A selection of 10 butterflies
Box 7: Beetles
Suitable for older children for art purposes:
- A selection of 10 beetles
Box 8: Mixed insects
Suitable for older children for art purposes:
- green beetle
- stag beetle
- beetle
- dragonfly
- grasshopper
- hawk wasp
- trap door ant
- leaf insect
- brimstone butterfly
- butterfly
- moth
Box 9: Variety box
A fascinating mixture of different specimens:
- eyed cowrie shell
- parrot feathers
- blackbuck horn
- horse molar
- badger bone
- cow vertebra
- herring gull eggs
- mushroom coral
- mermaid purse
Box 10: Fossils 1
Ideal for studying time periods, animals from the past and fossilisation:
- graptolite
- ammonite fragment
- coral
- sea urchin
- cast of t-rex tooth
- ammonite
- belemnite
- devils toe nail
- trilobite
- calamite (plant)
Box 11: Fossils 2
Ideal for studying time periods, animals from the past and fossilisation:
- bivalve spondylus spinosus
- belemnites
- shark teeth
- fern
- ammonites
- graptolite
- coral placosmilia
- bivalve gryphaea
- coral
- fish vertebrae
- trilobite
- echinoid
