Design a Sustainable Village

Suitability : 4th – 6th Class

Duration : 2.5 hours including break

Cost: €3.50 per pupil, Teachers go Free

This workshop supports pupils, 4th to 6th classes, to design a thriving eco village which harnesses green energy, grows its own food and supports and cherishes all of its community, while minimising its impact on our planet.

Discussion on the UN Sustainable Goals, object based learning and games relating to sustainable living in the past, present and future, will support pupils to define the scope of their futuristic eco village. They will then work in teams, using drawing, making and collage, to visually represent it.

Workshop Activities

Interactive Game: Play Design a Renewable House and make smart energy choices.
Explore Seán Keating’s Night’s Candles Are Burnt Out to discover how electricity transformed Ireland.
Examine artefacts that have been repurposed or repaired in inventive ways.
Collaborate to come up with creative, sustainable solutions for a more mindful society.
Work together to design their own sustainable village.

Key Learning Objectives

Consumer Choices & the Environment
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Sustainable Living at Home
Recycling & Renewable Energy
Creative Learning & Innovation

Booking is Essential

Contact

emma@huntmuseum.com

call :061 490083

Clay Through the Ages

Suitability: 3rd- 6th Class

Duration : 2.15 hours ( including break)

Cost: €5 per pupil, Teachers Go Free

Step into the world of clay and explore its journey through history in this engaging, hands-on workshop! Participants will uncover how ceramics have evolved, from Bronze Age artifacts to modern-day creations, examining pieces from the Hunt Museum’s collection. Through this exploration, students will gain a deeper understanding of how clay has shaped cultures, reflected human creativity, and served both artistic and practical purposes across time.

Workshop Highlights:

Discover the properties of clay and its many uses in daily life.
Learn how different civilizations developed clay technology for trade, domestic use, and rituals.
Create a food vessel using traditional hand-building techniques like pinch pots, coiling, and slab-building.

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to connect with the past while exploring the continuing evolution of clay as an essential material in both art and function.

Curricular Links

Science : Materials; Properties and characteristics of materials Materials and change

Environmental Awareness & Care ; Environmental Awareness

Visual Arts ;Clay

History: Early People and Ancient Societies; Bronze Age People, Ancient Greeks; Continuity and Change Over Time

Maths; Shape and Space: 2-D shapes3-D shapes; Symmetry Lines and Angles

Five children smiling and sitting in the Hunt Museum, holding various pottery and decorated tiles, conveying excitement and curiosity about ancient artifacts. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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Children focusing intently on clay modelling at a table. A girl in a pink shirt works closely, while others in vibrant attire engage nearby. Creative, focused atmosphere. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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A group of children gathered around a table engaging in a pottery class with an instructor. They appear focused and attentive, working with clay. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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Three smiling children sit in the Hunt Museum near a glass display of ancient pottery. More children sit in the background, creating a lively and curious atmosphere. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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A young girl gazes thoughtfully at ornate, colourful pottery displayed in the Hunt Museum, reflecting interest and curiosity. A woman and child are nearby. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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A guide explains ancient pottery to attentive children through a glass display in the Hunt Museum. The scene feels educational and engaging. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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A woman stands by a display of ornate pottery in the Hunt Museum, engaging a group of seated children. The setting conveys curiosity and learning. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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A group of children and a woman look at The Hunt Museum artifacts behind glass, including a ceramic animal and decorative plates, with a curious, engaged atmosphere. — 26-03-2025 Hunt Museum Clay Workshop. Picture: Keith Wiseman
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Pre- Christian Ireland; Stone Age – Bronze Age

Suitability : Senior Cycle
Duration: 90 minutes

Cost: €3.50 per student, Teachers go Free

Discover what life was like for people in Pre-Christian Ireland through interactive group activities, a tour of our Collection, handling of replica objects and new innovative digital interactives.

Focusing on the Stone Age and Bronze Age, students will build their visual literacy as they learn about the materials, production methods and decoration techniques used to make everyday tools and objects in prehistoric times.

During this workshop, students will use visual thinking strategies to examine and compare settlements from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to determine how lifestyles improved in conjunction to the development of new materials and technologies. They will use digital interactives to investigate archeological objects from our Collection and participate in group art activities.

This workshop will support students to complete written questions in content area 2; Ireland and it`s place in the wider world; Pre-Christian section of the Leaving Certificate Examinations.

Collection & Exhibition Tours

The Hunt Museum offers discounted, engaging guided gallery visits of the permanent collection and special exhibitions for further education colleges and university students.

These seminar-style discussions are led by Museum staff and volunteers and can be specifically designed to enhance professors’ curricula. Through close observation and guided discussion, students explore art, history, world cultures or museology.

Opportunities are also available to develop collaborative projects culminating in online and gallery-based exhibitions and installations.

To book email or call:

Email: educationoffice@huntmuseum.com

Call: 061490089

Reading 20th Century Art

Reading 20th Century Art – Relevant to Senior Cycle students.
Duration: 60mins
€3.50 per student, teachers go free!

This tour will aid Senior Cycle students in the completion of Section 1 and 2 of the Art History and Appreciation written paper.

Using visual thinking strategies this workshop enables students to look, analyze and interpret works of historic importance by Irish & European artists such as Jack. B Yeats, Sean Keating , Roderic O Connor, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin.

Through group discussions students learn how to create a structured response that reflects a personal connection to the work.

Learning Outcomes:
• Learned and applied critical and visual language when assessing,
understanding and appreciating Irish and/or European art
• Completed structured written analysis of artworks including subject matter, composition, style, media/materials, techniques and influence

To book email or call:

Email: educationoffice@huntmuseum.com

Call: 061490089

The Vikings workshop – Junior Cycle

The Vikings Post Primary School Handling Session – Suitable for Junior Certificate and Transition Year Students.
Duration: 60mins
Cost €3.50 per student, teachers go free!

This workshop utilizes replica objects, digital interactives, and artifacts from our collection to enhance students’ understanding of the Vikings’ history in Ireland. It informs them about the Viking culture, including their lifestyle, clothing, weapons used in battles, and innovative technology that they introduced to the Irish people.

Curricular Links:

Visual Art: Strand – Art (Element: Critical and visual language, 1.1,
1.2 ; Element: Visual Culture and Appreciation

History: Strand – Developing Historical Consciousness – History of Ireland

Geography: Strand – Exploring People, Places, and Change

Loan Box

This is also available as a loan box.

The Hunt Museum offers a range of different loan boxes containing an array of handling material, and activity resources, that can bring the past to life in the classroom.

Contains artifacts relating to Ireland’s Viking age, and the role of the Norsemen in Limerick.

Cost: 35 euro for 10 days.

Curricular Links:

History

Strand: Developing historical consciousness
Strand: History of Ireland

To book email or call:

Email the Education Office

Call: 061490089

800 Years of Fashion

Duration: 60mins
€3.50 euro per student. Teachers go free!

During this workshop, students will learn about clothing from the past, covering eight periods between 1200 and 1920, and the societies that wore them. Resources, and objects in the Permanent Collection, will be used as historical evidence to gain a greater understanding of the evolution of fashion and how this relates to changes in society. This is a playful and fun workshop where students will get the opportunity to try on costumes as they learn about the fashion styles and cultures of the past.