Submarine Museum Easter activities

5th April 2011

This Easter, visitors to the Royal Navy Submarine in Gosport can dress up a pirate, cruise across Portsmouth Harbour, keep a submarine at depth and make a garden. New interactive games, family events and the ever popular Skull & Crossbones exhibition are all part of a visit to the family museum.

New science games include an escape challenge, where the skill is to help a model submariner escape from under the water and a driving submarine challenge where the test is to maintain the submarine at a certain depth.  For families with younger children, the popular Skull & Crossbones exhibition has been extended till October and allows families to play together, dress up as pirates, climb on board a pirate ship and set sail for buried treasure.  Children can also make their own Octopus’s Garden at special drop in family workshops every Thursday of the holidays from 11am.

Bill Sainsbury, Marketing Manager of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum said, “Our submariners are looking forward to a busy time this Easter, giving guided tours of HMS Alliance and trying out the new games in the science gallery” 

The Portsmouth waterbus will be starting up again to link the Submarine Museum with neighbouring attractions Explosion and Gunwharf Quays. Discounted entry tickets of up to half price entry to both museums can be bought with a waterbus ticket from Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth.

The Royal Navy Submarine Museum is open every day.  Visitors can go onboard a WWII submarine - HMS Alliance with a veteran submariner to hear his stories about living beneath the waves, peer into the only surviving WW2 midget submarine and step inside the Royal Navy’s first submarine Holland 1.  For more information visit www.submarine-museum.co.uk or call 023 92510354.