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Learning at the 1620s House and Garden

Inspiration Learning in Inspirational places

This beautiful medieval house is presented as a fully furnished Jacobean home from the early 17th century. The house is set within a picturesque 17th century style garden with labelled plants and flowers, an orchard, herb gardens and a small maze. 

We offer a number of curriculum enrichment activities and are also in the process of developing new learning sessions. The site can also be hired for teacher-led learning.

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Choosing your package

Browse our learning packages or individual sessions we offer

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Planning your visit

Everything you need to know before you visit

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Our approach to learning

  • Our approach to learning

    We provide hands-on, multi curricula-based learning sessions in exciting historical places.

  • Learning Strategy

    Our strategy is to bring our important historical stories to life in our Museum sites, through our multi-skilled and engaging learning team.

    We work alongside Creative Learning Services who provide outreach sessions to schools and groups.

  • How we evaluate

    Evaluation is very important to us, so we can keep evolving and improving. We give every school group leader a digital and physical copy of our evaluation form and we encourage them to be returned so we can praise our facilitators or improve our sessions as required.

  • Learning partnership

    We work closely with teachers to make our sessions as good and relevant as possible.

    We run a Heritage Learning Panel which we invite teachers to support us with session pilots and advice on current curriculum needs.

    If you would like to be involved with the Heritage Learning Panel, please contact our Heritage Learning Officer, Helen Keeling: h.keeling@leics.gov.uk