🐧 Follow the 2025 Inspiring Explorers to Antarctica 🐧

Bring VR to My School or Event

Book VR for my School or Event

The Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Education™ team travel around New Zealand to bring our virtual reality experiences to schools, community groups, public venues, and festivals.

The Trust’s education programme is supported by a suite of resources, and aims to help participants:

gain a deeper understanding of the huts we care for and their significance in shaping the course of Antarctic history.
be inspired by the polar explorers’ stories.
learn more about our conservation work and New Zealand’s long connection with Antarctica.

If you would like the team to bring one of our virtual reality experiences to your school, community group or event, fill in the form below and we will be in touch soon.

We offer two education programmes:

Discovery Hut VR_credit AHT-Alasdair Turner_web

Scott’s Discovery Hut Virtual Reality Experience

In this dynamic experience you will be transported to the very heart of Antarctic exploration, allowing you to step inside Discovery hut on Ross Island, Antarctica, just as Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton did over a century ago. Offering exciting interactions, including a ride in a hydrogen balloon, feeding huskies, helping a sledging party, and getting up close to the Discovery ship, this experience shares the stories behind this unique shelter’s place in polar history and the explorers that inhabited it. Explore Scott’s hut as it is today – conserved by our expert team to ensure it is weather tight and structurally sound and keeps the 500 artefacts it contains safe.

Damian and TAE Hut_credit Tim McPhee 2017_web

Hillary’s Hut – Antarctica Virtual Reality Experience

An immersive programme where the participants explore Sir Ed’s historic hut, interacting with different objects while learning about New Zealand’s first Antarctic expedition.

Register Here!

To find out more about our Education programme, email education@nzaht.org

Call for Tour Sponsors

We’re looking for sponsors for our education programme including the virtual reality tour. If you know of an organisation or company that might be interested, please put them in touch with our Development & Philanthropy Manager, Patricia Mackenzie, at p.mackenzie@nzaht.org.

Explore our digital image database, Icy Heritage, to see our education programme in action, along with thousands of images of our conservation work and Inspiring Explorers™ programme.

Visit icyheritage.org