Kate Noble

Education Officer, The Fitzwilliam Museum


Kate works on the schools programme at The Fitzwilliam Museum. She leads a teacher training programme which encourages creative teaching and learning using objects and images and works with teachers and school groups to help them to make the most out of their visit to the museum.

Valuing the Visual

by | 01.08.17

Some highlights and reflections from the Valuing the Visual Conference at Sheffield School of Education on 4 and 5 July 2017. At the beginning of July I was fortunate to be able to go to the International Literacies Conference in Sheffield. The conference explored the intersections between written and spoken language and the visual. I was one of the only… Read full article

“It’s got to be easy to use”

by , and | 12.04.17

How consulting with teachers is helping the University of Cambridge Museums improve its digital resources for schools. Early in 2016 a team of University of Cambridge Museum educators (Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Naomi Chapman from the Polar Museum and Sarah-Jane Harknett from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) worked on a research project looking at how teachers use collections-based… Read full article

How Did They Do That? Science and Technology in Ancient Egypt

by | 22.03.17

Designing an interactive Quest for 8-14 year olds We are excited to announce the launch of a new interactive quest for 8-14 year olds based around the sarcophagus lid of Rameses III at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Guided by Amy and her Egyptologist uncle, children are led through a series of simple tasks to help them to understand some of the… Read full article