Visit a Real Museum

Now it’s time to visit a museum. Tees Valley Museums can support you with booking a visit to one of their venues. There are a variety of workshops available across the Tees Valley. Many museums offer EYFS and takeover events, giving children opportunities to meet the different people who work in museums and to see some of the old objects that the museums have collected from the past.

Takeover events enable children to engage with museum staff as well as interact with the collections. More information about what an EYFS visit might look like can be found here.

It might be a good idea to take photos of your visit which can be used back at school to spark ideas about how to make a museum in the classroom.

A letter to your class could help set a challenge around your visit. For example, if children are attending a Toddler Takeover event, write a letter asking for their help in running a short-staffed museum for the day.

How about setting a challenge to spot the different jobs people do to take care of the museum, its visitors and collections? A list of various museum roles can be found here.

Having a class conversation around what different parts of a museum they may visit, and the people they might meet, will also prepare them for their trip. It will also help children to think about how they can make their own museum.

If you are unable to visit a venue, opportunities to visit museums online are available, and this includes local museums that children may have visited with their families. Visit Kirkleatham Museum online here.

Here  are more museums around the world that you can visit virtually.