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Open from 10am - 5pm Monday to Sunday. You can pay for admission on arrival at the museum.

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ESOL Language Groups

We love welcoming international groups to SeaCity Museum. Here you’ll be able to find additional free resources to help you plan your trip and education and to help your students discover more about Southampton’s incredible past!
Special discounts are available for groups of more than 10 and our bookings team will be able to assist you. For more information please contact our team on 023 8083 4536 or email museums@southampton.gov.uk.

Educational Resources

We’ve created a range of free downloadable activities for students learning English, all based around the history of Southampton. These work brilliantly when combined with a guided tour of the Old Town. Click on the links below to download the relevant activity packs. These packs have been designed for absolute beginners (pre-entry) through to intermediate level English (entry level 3).

These resources have been made as part of the Mayflower 400 programme in Southampton with funding from the National Heritage Lottery Fund. Southampton approached the anniversary through the lens of migration. The Mayflower is one of many thousands of migrant, transmigrant and refuge ships that have left from, or arrived in Southampton during the past seven centuries. As a result, 148 languages are currently spoken in the city. The anniversary was an opportunity to reveal this rich and diverse history, and to encourage communities to tell their stories, many of which will have previously been hidden. Find out more.

ESOL Resources Activity Plan: Here you will find a lesson plan for how to use all the resources on this page.

PowerPoint Presentation: Here you will find a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that accompanies the ESOL Resources Activity Plan.

Below you will find links to four different activity packs which are designed for students who are learning English (ESOL Pre-entry, Entry Level 1, Entry Level 2 and Entry Level 3). Clicking on the image or link will download the activity packs.

Southampton – An international city walking tour

Below you will find an interactive walking tour map which will help you explore Southampton. This map is interactive and has clickable videos to help you learn from listening as well as reading!

Learner Map: Here you will find the original learner map in a downloadable (non-interactive) format.

Tutor Map: Here you will find a version of the map in a downloadable (non-interactive) format suitable for tutors and those with a more advanced level of English.