What is the YAC Pass and where can I use it?
What is the YAC Pass?
The YAC Pass is the Young Archaeologists’ Club passport to the past. It is a booklet packed full of offers at sites and organisations across the UK, which are especially designed for YAC UK members.
There are loads of reasons to join YAC UK and the brilliant YAC Pass booklet is just one of them.
This year YAC UK has joined up with almost 180 independent sites, so wherever you live across the United Kingdom there will be an site for you to visit or an organisational offer for you to access.
How to use the YAC Pass
The YAC Pass booklet can be used with a valid YAC UK membership card to get you into lots of local sites for a discounted price or in most cases, for free. Find out more about how to use the YAC Pass.
Find a participating YAC Pass site near you on the YAC Pass site map and find out what offer they have this year.
YAC UK members can use their YAC Pass booklet to access:
Free entry at:
- English Heritage sites
- Cadw sites in Wales
- Historic Scotland sites
- Environment and Heritage Service sites in Northern Ireland
Half-price entry at the 13 Manx National Heritage sites on the Isle of Man
Discounts on archaeological experiences/equipment:
- 10% online discount on trowels, hardhats, boots and archaeological tools with Archtools
- 2 for 1 deal on scuba diving lessons with Professional Association of Diving Instructors
- 10% discount on your family holiday with The Adventure Company
- A fantastic 5% discount on Peter Sommer archaeological holidays
- Save 15% online when booking a City Sightseeing tour in 85 towns and cities worldwide!
- 15% discount with on clothing, footwear, books, maps and equipment at Cotswold Outdoors
- 10% online discount on clothing and camping equipment at Outdoor World Direct
Offers on organisational memberships/subscriptions:
- Save £9 on a Archaeology Scotland family membership
- Get a 25% discount on a British Archaeology magazine subscription
- Make a 45% saving on an annual Geographical magazine subscription
- 30% discount on an annual National Geographic Kids magazine subscription
Discounts on books/travel guides:
- 10% discount on books with Book House
- 10% online discount on books, clothing and jewellery with The British Museum Press
- 25% discount off Insight Guides priced at £12.99 or more (plus free postage and packaging)
YAC UK Members can visit some amazing independent museums including:
- Bamburgh Castle, Northmberland
- Ely Museum, Cambridgeshire
- Lunt Roman Fort, Warwickshire
- EUREKA, West Yorkshire
- Murton Park, North Yorkshire
- Wordsworth House, Cumbria
- Samlesbury Hall, Lancashire
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxfordshire
- Harrington Aviation Museums, Northamptonshire
- Louth Museum, Lincolnshire
- Moyse’s Hall, Suffolk
- Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall
- Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves, Devon
- Creswell Crags Ice Age Site & Museum, Nottinghamshire
- Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire
- Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre & Country Park, Leicestershire
- Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire
- Verulamium Museum, Hertfordshire
- Colchester Castle Museum, Essex
- Binchester Roman Fort, County Durham
- Yorkshire Waterways Museum, East Yorkshire
- Bede’s World, Tyne & Wear
- FLAME, The Gasworks Museum of Ireland
- Groam House Museum, Scotland
- Pictavia Museum, Scotland
- Traquair House, Scotland
- Ceredigion Museum, Wales
- Plas Newydd, Wales
- Powysland Museum, Wales