Eureka!
Eureka! The National Children's Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Email: info@eureka.org.uk
- Type: Museum
- Description: children’s museum in Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Eureka! (museum)” and “Eureka! The National Children’s Museum”
- Address: Discovery Road, Halifax, HX1 2NE
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Halifax railway station and Calderdale Industrial Museum.
Halifax railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halifax railway station serves the town of Halifax in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Calder Valley line and is 17 miles west from Leeds. Platform 2 is used by eastbound services towards Bradford and Leeds, while platform 1 accommodates westbound trains towards Brighouse, Huddersfield, Sowerby Bridge, Blackpool North and Manchester Victoria. Halifax railway station is situated 400 feet northeast of Eureka!.
Calderdale Industrial Museum
Museum
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calderdale Industrial Museum is a museum in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, dedicated to the industrial heritage of the area. The museum contains a number of working machines built between 1850 – 1930 all of which were either built or used in Halifax. Calderdale Industrial Museum is situated 820 feet north of Eureka!.
Halifax Minster
Church
Photo: Jwholdsworth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halifax Minster is the minster church of Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. The church is dedicated to St John the Baptist. The parish church of the town, it was granted minster status in 2009. Halifax Minster is situated 1,200 feet north of Eureka!.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halifax and Boothtown.
Halifax
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halifax is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 90,000 in 2021. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, which dealt through the Halifax Piece Hall.
Boothtown
Suburb
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which falls within Town Ward, one of the 17 wards of Calderdale. Its history was dominated by the mills of the textile industry.
Akroydon
Hamlet
Photo: Declanbowley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Akroydon model housing scheme is a Victorian-era model village at Boothtown, Halifax, in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.
Eureka!
- Categories: children’s museum, charitable organization, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.72008° or 53° 43′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.85493° or 1° 51′ 18″ westOpen location code
9C5WP4CW+22OpenStreetMap ID
way 102330658OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q15217042
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