The Three Muses Clay Through the Ages Archeology game
Use your archeological skills to put the broken food vessel back together as quickly as possible!
Use your archeological skills to put the broken food vessel back together as quickly as possible!
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.
Ancient Ireland Handling Session: During this workshop, students will use their senses to analyse and evaluate various replica objects. This will enable them to construct historical narratives, and interpret what life was like in the Stone Age and Bronze Age.
They will also take a tour of the prehistoric objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection.
Relevant to the Junior cycle
Duration: 60 mins
€3.50 per student, teachers go free!
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.
This can be used to learn about Ireland in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.
Cost: 30 euro plus VAT for 10 days.
History
Visual Art
English
Science
Environmental Social Studies
For 3rd and 4th Classes
Cost: 3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!
Duration: 2 hours including 15 minute break
This workshop takes learners on a journey through the Stone Age and Bronze Age. Through the handling of replica objects and analyzing archaeology in the Collection, they will learn how people lived, their beliefs and practices and what technologies emerged and evolved during these prehistoric periods. Visual thinking strategies will be used in conjunction with our beautifully illustrated Life in the Bronze Age exhibition, deepening learner knowledge.
History
Science
Geography