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The Three Muses

The Three Muses: An innovative schools programme from the Hunt Museum, Limerick Museum, and Limerick City Gallery of Art, focussing on modern and contemporary visual art.

Duration: 60 mins

The Three Muses: Exploring art and identity is a programme for Primary School students designed to increase access, ownership, and enjoyment of the collections of three museums in Limerick city.

Participating school groups will enjoy a full day at the museum of workshops, and avail of activity packs to extend their learning.

Visual Art

  • Paint and Colour: Looking and responding; Making
  • Clay: Looking and responding; Making
  • Print: Looking & responding; Making

History

  • Strand: Local Studies
  • Strand: Working as a historian
  • Strand: Life, society, and culture in the past
  • Strand: Continuity and change over time

The Vikings

Suitable for 3rd – 6th class
€3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!

This workshop is all about the Vikings. Pupils engage in active learning through handling replica objects such as clothing tools and weapons. During this tour they experience original Viking objects in our collection and complete related activities facilitating cross curricular learning. This workshop can be tailored to suit different age groups and learning abilities.

Curricular Links:
Art: Drawing & Constructing
Strand: Looking & Responding
History: Stories; Early People & Ancient Societies;
Change & Continuity; Working as a Historian;
Local Studies

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.

Art

  • Strand: Drawing & Constructing
  • Strand: Looking & Responding

History

  • Strand: Stories
  • Strand: Early People & Ancient Societies
  • Strand: Change & Continuity
  • Strand: Working as a Historian
  • Strand: Local Studies

Online programme also available: 

Find it here.

To book email or call:

educationoffice@huntmuseum.com

061490089

 

 

 

Viking Online Programme for Primary Schools

Through this Viking online programme, students will explore life in Viking Ireland and create some Viking art along the way! It is a digital programme designed for 3rd and 4th class students, consisting of short animations, a virtual handling session and printable activity books. The aim is to provide students with a better understanding of Viking history in Ireland.

There is also a Viking handling session available. 

Video & worksheet

Students will use both original and replica Viking objects from the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection to learn more about their lives.

Watch the video for more information:

Viking Worksheet

Visual Arts

  • Strands: Drawing; Constructing; Looking & Responding

History

  • Strand: Stories;
  • Strand: Early People & Ancient Societies;
  • Strand: Local Studies;
  • Strand: Change & Continuity;
  • Strand: Working as a Historian

This is also available as an onsite programme.

Find it here.

Play The Three Muses

Play The Three Muses! Discover the art collections of three museums in Limerick City with this interactive game. Put your memory to the test with Limerick lace, create a colourful fruit poster, paint a Paul Henry skyline, or try your knowledge with a quiz!

There is also a three muses activity pack available.

The Three Muses

This project is brought to you by The Three Muses, a joint education initiative between The Hunt Museum, Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art. The Three Muses is supported by Limerick City and County Council and Friends of the Hunt Museum.

Curricular Links:

  • History
  • Visual Art

Truffles | Clay through the Ages Game

Help Truffles, the treasure hunting piggy, on a journey through Limerick City! Each level you complete will unlock a ceramic treasure from one of the Three Muses: The Hunt Museum, Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art!

The layout of the old city of Limerick that Truffles navigates through is inspired by an illustration of Limerick from 1578 in the Limerick Museum Collection.

The colour palette for Truffles and the city was taken from a selection of watercolour paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Limerick City Gallery of Art.

Truffles our main character is inspired by Limerick’s ‘Pigtown’ food heritage.

The patrolling diver ‘guards’ are inspired by the diving suit in the Limerick Museum Collection.

The sweets that Truffles collects on her way to find the keys are inspired by the shapes of sweet moulds from Limerick sweet production, also on display in the Limerick Museum.

Look closely and you will see King John’s Castle, the river Shannon, the windmill from Windmill Street, and St. Mary’s cathedral. Look ever closer and you will see a Pike splashing in the Shannon. There are a number of stuffed fish in the Limerick Museum.

If you play the game with the sound on you will hear Truffles speaking, she speaks in Limerick slang! What can you hear her say?

Listen carefully – do you hear the Bells of St. Mary’s  Cathedral?

The objects and artefacts being hunted by Truffles are:

Tree of Life by Tiburcio Soteno from the Limerick City Gallery of Art Permanent Collection.

Play Truffles Online Game Now

To play, use Arrow keys, WASD, or D-Pad depending on your device.

Please click here to open game full page and to install on mobile or tablet.

How to install Truffles: Clay Through The Ages on your Mobile or Tablet:

  1. Use the link “click here,” to open the game on full page
  2. In your browser press the “Options menu”
  3. On Chrome browser click, “Add to Home screen.” If you’re using Firefox browser, press “Install.”
  4. Go back to your “Home Screen,” press on the piggy icon and play!

How to install Truffles: if you're using an iPhone or iPad:

  1. Use the link “click here,” to open the game on full page
  2. In your browser press the “Share option”
  3. Then choose the option, “Add to Home screen”
  4. Go back to your “Home Screen,” press on the piggy icon and play!

Play the Three Muses


Three Muses game title

Play The Three Muses! Discover the art collections of three museums in Limerick City with this interactive game. Put your memory to the test with Limerick lace, create a colourful fruit poster, paint a Paul Henry skyline, or try your knowledge with a quiz!

There is also a three muses activity pack available.

Learn more about The Three Muses Programme:

Click the links to find out more:

The Three Muses Activity Pack

We are delighted to bring you The Three Muses Activity Pack, a learning resource inspired by the collections of The Hunt Museum, Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art.

It is bursting with open-ended, creative activities. This pack is available in a colour version for screens, and a reduced colour version for printing at home. Explore and learn with Limerick’s museums without leaving your house – all you need is a pencil, paper and your brilliant imagination!

The Three Muses is a learning programme designed to increase access, ownership and enjoyment of three Limerick city museums, with a focus on modern and contemporary visual art. The programme includes workshops and learning resources.

Watch a short video on the programme below:

The Three Muses programme is supported by Limerick City and County Council, Friends of the Hunt Museum and is sponsored by Affinity Credit Union and Unity Credit Union. This Activity Pack is sponsored by Unity Credit Union.

  • Art
  • History 
  • English 

Animal Hunt Tour

Animal Hunt Tour! What kinds of animals are hidden in the collection? Why do artists draw animals? Do these animals look like animals you’ve seen in real life? Booking is essential.

Suitable for 1st & 2nd class
Duration: 60 mins.
Cost: 3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!

On the Animal Hunt Tour, pupils will discover how animals have been depicted in art from the past to the present. They learn about both real and mythical animals. Learning strategies including discussion, movement, and drawing.

To book email or call:

Email: educationoffice@huntsmuseum.com

Call: 06 149 0089

  • Drawing
  • Living Things

Collection Protection

Collection Protection: Primary School students will learn how materials (artefacts/objects) in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection decay and degrade over time. They will also learn about the science of preserving them for the future.

  • Resource 1 is designed for in-class presentation. Students will be introduced to objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection. They will be taught how to categorise these objects as organic or inorganic, based on their materials. 
  • Resource 2 is designed to be printed out and used as a hard copy for students. Through a series of practical experiments, students will explore how some of the materials in the Hunt Museum Permanent Collections erode.
  • Resource 3 is a presentation introducing students to methods of preservation and restoration carried out in the Hunt Museum

Science

  • Energy and forces
  • Materials

Visual Art

  • Strand: Painting and colour

Geography

  • Natural Environments
  • Rocks and soils
  • Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere

 

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