DIG — Attraction in England

We visited dig this week as we bought a family triple ticket for all 3 attractions This review is hard because when buying a triple ticket your paying around £4 per attraction jorvic is worth £10 all day long dig however I think is mainly aimed towards children and as an adult I didn't find that it had anything to offer to myself so this review is mainly from my own experience as an adult... So at dig your aim is to go and dig in bits of rubber that's covering items stuck in the bottom of a pit floor the items are literally stuck into the floor and you can't pick them up This I think is a downside I think the pits should have been deeper and there should have been actual items to find not just uncover things stuck into the floor. My 9 year old daughter liked it and it's still a great way to entertain them for 1.5 hours There was 3 sections to dig one being viking one roman and one medieval if I remember correctly We found things like a pan some pottery some sheep and cow bones and some coins you also have to cover the things back up yourself lmao 😂 I think I maybe being a little biased with this review as an adult but I think if anything can interest children at the same time as adults then you really are onto a winner this place is deffinatly one for children only and I think the place could have a lot more people going if they found a way to do this there was only us and one other family at the time that we went and I think they could do a lot better If you have small children I would recommend DIG as they will enjoy it as an adult review Its hard to stay interested and not feel silly brushing around small pieces of rubber to uncover items stuck to the floor I think they need more to make me want to come back again so as an adult review for the price with children I would recommend it but alone as an adult I can't recommend it unfortunately but I hope in the future they have more to offer on an adult level to entertain us as well as...

What a lovely museum. Great for families although it's a bit on the expensive side.

The premise of the museum is around archeology, it features friendly staff, a nice short, garden walk with interactive displays, interactive talk and time in make believe dig sites.

On entering the premises you find the shop with archeology centric souvenirs from Roman coins, dig kits, historical toys to pretend poo's!

Entrance is time slotted. You sit down and partake in a talk that goes into detail about archeology, history and how to think about history, not only real history, but us from the future historians pov.

Children (and big children, if you ask my wife) are encouraged to take part in the talk answering questions and even touching bones that are hundreds of years old.

Following the talk, you can enjoy the dig sites. These are areas filled with rubber pellets that hide artefacts from the Victorian, medieval and Roman times. Each area is themed and the hostess was going around asking questions about the things we had discovered.

Following our time in the dig sites, we were then free to enjoy the rest of the exhibits.

Overall, we had an absolutely lovely time here, the only poor feedback was that the time in the dig sites was too short, we couldn't do each site and take our time talking about what we had found and what things could be, or make up our ideas.

For a family of three, we paid £38, we feel that price was reasonable but would have definitely appreciated more time in the dig sites but with the timing slots as they were, we understand why not.

If I could recommend anything it would be to move to another venue which is slightly larger to accommodate 2 sets of dig sites so that 1 group can have 45 mins to an hour to try each activity while another tour group goes to the...

Very boring experience for the three adults and for the one child on our group. At the beginning the around 30 minutes long lecture on objects was really slow-paced. The actual dig was a huge dissapointment, as there was nothing even slightly reminding of an actual archaelogical excavation (and I've worked in them..). Nothing about e.g. layers, proper digging methods and tools, documentation, conservation.. And not even anything real to be actually lifted up and examined more, as everything was made as a grey plastic shape on the floor. And these were not interesting to the child, or even to us adults. We grew really tired of this towards the end (actually already during the lecture, during the first of four dig pits..), luckily it ended, as it started to feel more like a shared punishment.

I have been to many hands-on musems, experience and science centers, as well as been designing stuff like this, and I have to say that this was the most poorly planned and executed in this category. And really quite expensive for the three adults that had literally nothing to do. Even the child (aged 7) was getting really bored and slightly fustrated towards the end (also during the super long lecture part).

Such a shame, as this could have been more ambitious, scientific and fun with just a little more efort and imagination. This was my firts choice to see in York out of personal and professional interest, and I am sorry to say that I really can not...