Higher Education
We offer a range of learning opportunities for Higher Education students including talks, tours, study days, workshops and film courses. Find out more about our events by browsing through the categories below.
Insight: Collections & Researh Centre is the main focal point for researching our world-class Collection. You can arrange to tour Insight, or make an appointment for research purposes. For more information, visit
Insight: Collections & Research Centre.
The Museum works in partnership with the University of Bradford to deliver core television production modules and offer students access to media industry events held here. The Museum, University of Bradford and East Coast Media together form the Yorkshire and Humber Skillset Media Academy.
Film & Media Studies
Listed below are the courses, talks and days schools which may be of interest to Higher Education film students. We have selected these events from our Film Extra and 16+ programmes.
For further information or to join the mailing list for Film studies, please contact jen.skinner@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk.
48 Hour Film School
Subject to availability
Make a short film from scratch with the support of experienced industry professionals during this intensive 2-day course.
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Talks & Tours
Talks and tours led by Museum Explainers and Curators are designed to provide explanation and interpretation of our exhibitions and Collection. Also listed below are special events which may be of interest to Higher Education students.
Collection Tour for Post-16 and HE Students
Subject to availability
Take a tour of Insight: Collections & Research Centre, home to over 3.5 million items of historical and cultural significance.
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Exhibition Talk
Subject to availability
Take a tour of the exhibitions currently on display in Galleries One and Two.
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IMAX
Ours is the only IMAX screen in Yorkshire. Showing 3D films on a giant 16m x 20m screen, it's an eye-opening, jaw-dropping experience that you don't want to miss.
IMAX: Hubble 3D (U)
Journey through distant galaxies, explore the mystery of our celestial surroundings and accompany spacewalking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history.
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IMAX: Wild Ocean 3D (U)
Explore the ways in which the creatures that live off the coast of South Africa need our protection and discover how the food chain works in this underwater environment.
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IMAX: Mummies (PG)
Learn about how pharaohs lived and about the Egyptian civilisation, their beliefs and customs, temples and tombs.
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IMAX: Dinosaurs Alive 3D (PG)
Journey to the Triassic and Cretaceous periods to see some of the greatest dinosaur finds in history.
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IMAX: Journey to Mecca (PG)
Follow Ibn Battuta on his perilous and adventurous pilgrimage from Tangier to Mecca between 1325 and 1326.
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