What is Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon School?
Learn more about How to Train Your Dragon School at DIG and discover the imagination and inspiration of author Cressida Cowell.
Step into our interactive experience inspired by Cressida Cowell’s latest How to Train Your Dragon book series! How to Train Your Dragon School follows Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his dragons, Toothless and Windwalker, as they join the Viking and Dragon Training School on the Isle of Berk.
Find out if you’ve got what it takes at DIG’s Viking and Dragon Training School. Explore hands-on activities, uncover hidden treasures in a brand-new DIG pit, and discover the real history that helped inspire the Viking world of the books.
With interactive fun throughout, this exciting exhibition is perfect for young dragon trainers aged 5–12.
So what are you waiting for? Book your journey to the Isle of Berk today!
What to Expect
DIG is made up of three exciting zones – Learn, Uncover, and Explore – each one taking you through a different part of the archaeological journey. Now, Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon School has been woven through the experience, bringing the world of Vikings and dragons to life like never before!
Step into Hiccup’s hut and uncover his treasured Dragon Manual. Discover the real history of the Vikings in Britain – the people who helped inspire the Isle of Berk in the How to Train Your Dragon books.
Find out if you’ve got what it takes at our Viking and Dragon Training School! Get hands-on in our exclusive DIG pit, filled with hidden treasures to uncover. Follow the dragon trail, test your senses with smells and sounds from the Isle of Berk, and try your hand at Viking-style fortune-telling.
Meet favourite characters like Hiccup, Gobber the Belch, Old Wrinkly, and Camicazi – and don’t forget to greet Windwalker, the giant dragon soaring above your head!
You can also watch exclusive video messages from Cressida Cowell and explore original artwork, maps, and sketches from her bestselling series. Fans of all ages can learn more about the author and how she created the unforgettable stories of Hiccup, Fishlegs, Toothless, and Windwalker.
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell, Children’s Laureate from 2019 to 2022, is the bestselling author-illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon, The Wizards of Once, and Which Way Round the Galaxy. Her books have sold over 16 million copies around the world and have been translated into 46 languages.
Cressida has championed children’s literacy for over 20 years. She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust, a patron of Read for Good, The Children’s Media Foundation, and the Woodland Trust, and sits on the Council of the Society of Authors. She is also an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton.
Her work has won many awards, including the Blue Peter Book Award, the Ruth Rendell Award for Championing Literacy, and the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction.
Cressida grew up in London and on a remote, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. She now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, their three children, and two dogs, Zero and Pigeon.