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. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children's museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.
Exterior of Eureka!
Eureka! is situated on the now demolished parts of Halifax station seen to the left, the remaining platforms can be seen to the right.
Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is near the east Pennine foothills. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In 2011, it had a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the wider Calderdale Metropolitan Borough.
Image: Halifax, from Beacon Hill (44152354954)
Image: Piece Hall, Halifax Feb 2023
Image: Halifax Minster (geograph 6407158)
Image: Halifax Town Hall Flickr 3 April 2022
