Roman Baths

The Roman Baths is a favourite for children and their teachers studying the Romans and Roman Britain. Children can work with original Roman material in our dedicated learning space.

At the Roman Baths Core Learning Centre students will be able to handle original artefacts and have a go at being an archaeologist excavating and recording thier finds.

Walk where Romans walked – on a visit to the Roman Baths you will walk in a building that was made 2000 years ago. Our visitors enjoy getting up close and personal with our costumed characters, listening to our children’s audio guides and exploring our special site with our leaning resources.

LOtC Quality Badge and Sandford Award for Heritage Education.

We offer a range of teaching sessions focused on Roman daily life, with opportunities to handle Roman objects from the museum’s collection and investigate historical sources.  All sessions are linked closely to the curriculum and cover Roman bathing, religion and belief, Latin language, and life in Roman Britain.

Our new updated sessions will be delivered from the Roman Baths, directly linking teaching with the archaeological site and its collections. Click below to explore our in-house sessions, all linked closely to the National Curriculum and exam criteria.

We are also continuing to run our popular virtual sessions, bringing our museum experts directly into your classroom. Sessions include ‘A Roman Adventure’ for Primary Schools and ‘Investigate Aquae Sulis’ for secondary schools.

We work on normal class sizes for facilitated sessions. Schools are able to bring more than one class in a day for an on-site visit.

We offer a range of resources for teachers to use in the classroom as part of our visit. For virtual visits, we send links to special films, activities and learning resources when a booking is made.

Photography is allowed.

We can provide risk assessments and for our virtual sessions we have a useful FAQ page.

You can contact our Learning and Participation Manager by telephone: 01225 477757 or email: heritagelearning@bathnes.gov.uk

To make a group booking, please contact by email the booking office at: romanbaths_bookings@bathnes.gov.uk.

Our virtual offer is based on number of virtual visits with our Roman Baths experts. We have three levels – 1 session, 2 sessions and 3 sessions in a day.

We recommend bringing a first aider with you.

Our new learning centre has facilities for school groups including a place to eat a packed lunch, cloakroom and toilets. There are two museum shops with pocket money items.

We welcome all visitors to the Roman Baths including those with additional access needs. The site is 90% accessible to wheelchair users and visitors with hearing or visual impairments can enjoy the site using the British Sign Language or fully descriptive audio tour and tactile models. We also provide information for visitors with autism and potential claustrophobia. You can read our helpful documents and watch our accessibility video below.

For up-to-date opening times see our visit page:

https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/visit

For up-to-date visitor feedback see our website – your experience!

https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/

We will update our website with current opening times and activities when we are able to open.