The day five collections teamed up to create “crime scenes”
How do you get thirty six 8-11 year olds excited about science in museums? Give them a ‘crime scene’ and skills to solve the crime. Early one Saturday morning in August, we welcomed our budding scientists for Science Detectives, a full day of forensic fun. The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, the Polar Museum, the Sedgwick Museum of…
Learning to Teach in the Museum
Find out about our cultural placement programme with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education which gives trainee teachers the opportunity to spend a week finding out about creative and cross-curricular learning in museums and galleries. Each year, a group of trainee teachers from the Primary PGCE course at University of Cambridge Faculty of Education spend time at the National…
Amo, amas, amat… and so much more than that: the Minimus Primary Latin Project
When I joined the Museum of Classical Archaeology as Education and Outreach Coordinator back in 2013, one of my first actions was to set up a project to offer after-school Latin clubs in couple of local state-maintained primary schools. Hot on the heels of having left behind a career as a Latin teacher, it seemed like an easy first project…
