For Schools and Colleges
Let your creative side shine and bring your school group to Baltic.
- Book a free guided tour with our Learning Team
- Discover our free self-guided activities and resources
- Log onto our free wi-fi
- Dive deep into the archive with helpful resources online at Baltic Archive. Here you can discover Baltic Bites films with past exhibiting artists and exhibition Spotlight videos to watch before you visit.
- Be inspired by Baltic Library, a collection of over 13,000 books on contemporary art and visual culture
- Chat to Baltic Crew about the exhibitions, artworks and any queries you might have during your visit
- Contact our Schools Team schools@balticmill.com and let us know if you need anything else to make the most of your trip.
Delve into our Exhibitions
Gallery Workshop
Led by our learning team, your group will take part in an interactive session where children will learn more about Baltic, contemporary art, and themes relating to the environment, nature and climate change.
Through fun and informal games, pupils will use the possibilities of contemporary art to ask big, conceptually rich questions and apply them to the exhibitions. Pupils will be able to question, challenge assumptions, seek alternative ideas and gain a better understanding of contemporary art and the environment through active communication and thoughtful sharing.
To book, or find out more about our relaxed exhibition tours, please contact our School Team on 0191 440 4973 or email schools@balticmill.com
Self-guided visits
Baltic welcomes school groups led by educators who would like to visit independently. We ask that if you are coming as a larger group, to split into smaller groups to visit exhibitions and to move through the building. Baltic Crew are on every floor and can chat to you about our exhibitions and what our building has to offer.
To book your visit and find out more about self-guided visits, email schools@balticmill.com
Download our Hazard Identification here.
Baltic Bridges: Self-guided activity and resource
Suitable for: Primary + SEND up to 30 pupils
Imagine you are in Newcastle but need to get to Baltic and there are no bridges… what would you do?
Bring your sketchbooks and pencils to our Level 4 Outdoor Viewing Terrace or the Level 5 Viewing Box, be inspired by the stunning views of Newcastle/Gateshead and design your very own bridge.
After booking, you will receive our Baltic Bridges Resource filled with creative bridges activities which is designed to support you before, during and after your visit to Baltic.
- Experimental drawing exercises
- An interactive video
- Question and prompt activities
- Links to Contemporary Artists who explore bridges
- Design inspiration from bridges around the world.
Brilliant Bridges by artist Zoe Allen, is an additional resource based on research, design, building and testing, containing a breadth of activities, this resource is perfect to deliver back in the classroom.
To receive this resource and book a time slot, please contact our School Team on 0191 440 4973 or email schools@balticmill.com
Work with Baltic Artists
Artist Studio Session
Suitable for: Primary & Secondary up to 30 pupils
Experience a creative session delivered by one of our experienced artist facilitators and develop your pupils’ artistic inspiration, influences, skills and techniques. If you have a project you'd like to work on with our team on, we would love to hear from you.
Artist-led Sessions give your pupils the opportunity to get initial inspiration for projects, develop new artistic practices, work closely with a practicing artist and explore their own thinking, sketch booking, documentation and artistic reasoning. These can take place in person, at your school and include all materials. If this is not possible, we can deliver sessions online if you have access to a webcam.
Cost: £150 half day, £280 full day + VAT.
To book a session please email to our School Team schools@balticmill.com
Cancellation Policy:
If you need to cancel your session, you should contact the Learning Team in writing using schools@balticmill.com. If you notify us of a cancellation that cannot be rescheduled within 3 days of your booked session you will be charged 50% of the fee. If your cancellation is within 24 hours of your booked session, you will be charged the full fee.
Creative Careers
Learn from professionals based in the North East, as they share insight about their Creative Careers.
The breadth and depth of career opportunities in the creative sector is not always visible. Explore inspiring talks, filmed interviews and practical workshops, and stream them directly to your educational setting.
Discover & Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Suitable for: Primary & Secondary
Arts Award is a national portfolio-based qualification for children and young people up to age 25 delivered across a variety of levels. At each level, children and young people develop arts, leadership and communication skills supported by a trained Arts Award adviser. If you work with children or young people up to age 25 in any setting; schools, community centres, youth groups or arts organisations for example; we can help you to deliver Arts Award.
We have advisors trained at every level and can deliver bespoke Arts Award programmes tailored to your group’s needs, as well as help you to locate our core offers into your own projects. Baltic is an Arts Award supporter and Trinity Champion Centre.
For information on your Arts Award journey with Baltic, please contact our School Team on 0191 440 4973 or email schools@balticmill.com
Learning Resources
Explore our downloadable resources, ready for you to play with and enjoy.
Find out more about our Learning and Teaching
Please donate today
As a registered charity, donations to Baltic are crucial as rising costs threaten our ability to
- Keep our exhibitions free entry and accessible to everyone
- Preserve support and opportunities for our communities to thrive
- Maintain our historical and iconic building