Activity bay

For Teachers and Pupils at KS1 and KS2 (and also KS3 and 16+)

For Young Adults and Lifelong Learners

Ticket to the past
Exploring what buses were like in the past

Holiday time
Holiday trips from the past

Keep moving
Exploring and making levers, pivots and sliders

The wheels on the bus …
Looking at wheels on transport and making a moving bus

Getting there 1
Travel choices and transport history

Looking after the planet
Impact of road transport on the environment

Time traveller 1
Finding evidence to discover how life in Britain has changed since 1948

Time traveller 2
Examining evidence to find out more about living in the past

Moving monsters
Using images from the collection to look at moving mechanisms

Bus shelters
Could you design a really useful bus shelter?

Take your seats!
A design challenge to create seats for public transport

Signs and maps
An exploration of road signs past and present

Getting There 2
Public versus private transport debate

What on earth?
How does our transport choice affect the environment?

What’s in the box?
An introduction to using an archive through the Baldwin Collection

The early days of public transport
Exploring two centuries of public and road transport

The public vs private transport debate
Examining the archive for evidence of past and present debate

Designing transport
Discovering how the design and manufacture of transport has evolved and exploring some less successful transport designs of the past!