Collection and Exhibition tours for those in Higher Education. The Hunt Museum offers discounted, engaging guided gallery visits of the permanent collection and special exhibitions for classes from FE colleges and universities.
These seminar-style discussions are led by Museum staff 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.
For more information please contact Maria Cagney, Curator of Education and Outreach.
Reading 20th Century Art – Relevant to Senior Cycle students.
Duration: 60mins
€3.50 per student, teachers go free!
These tours will aid Senior Cycle students in their completion of Section 1 and 2 of the Art History and Appreciation written paper.
Choose from:
Viking Post Primary Online Programme – This digital programme will teach Post Primary Junior Cycle students all about the Vikings.
Through short animations, a virtual handling session, and a printable workbook (featuring art activities and research topics) students will gain a greater understanding of Viking culture and their impact on Ireland. Students will use both replica and authentic Viking artefacts from the Hunt Museum Permanent Collection as a means to learn more about their lives.
Visual Art:
History
Geography:
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 draws on replica objects to help students learn more about Viking history in Ireland. Activities are tailored for a curriculum-linked learning experience for every age group.
Students will also take a tour of the Viking objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection.
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: 30 euro plus VAT for 10 days.
History
800 Years of Fashion Workshop
Duration: 60mins
€3.50 euro per student. Teachers go free!
In this workshop, students will learn about clothing from eight different periods (between 1200 and 1920), and these societies. These resources, and objects in the permanent collection, will be used as historical evidence to better understand the evolution of fashion over time, and how these shifts in style relate to changes in society.
History
With this resource, Junior Cycle students can learn about the techniques and processes used to create realistic costumes for film and TV. Students will be taken on a virtual tour of the Best Costume Goes To… exhibition. Students will research clothing from the Viking, Tudor, and Georgian periods using Hunt Museum resources, and design an accessory for a costume from a historical production.
The video below will get you started in the process of researching and designing an accessory for a costume inspired by the Best Costume Goes To… exhibition.
Visual Art:
History
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
This 20 minute video workshop introduces Primary School students to animal based collections at the Hunt Museum. Students learn how artists throughout history have depicted animals in their art, and why certain animals are important to different cultures. Students will be introduced to the online research tools that will help them complete the Animal Hunt 3D online activity.
History
Art
For 3rd and 4th Classes
Cost: 3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!
Duration: 60 mins
This workshop encourages pupils to thematically explore the objects and practices of Ireland’s Bronze Age people. It enables them to investigate and use as evidence the Bronze Age collections on display in the Hunt Museum. The handling of replica prehistoric artefacts will provide additional opportunities for inquiry-led learning. Pupils also get to try out some simple prehistoric technologies. This workshop walks the students through the prehistoric timeline as they learn how technologies emerged and advanced from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age.
Curricular Links:
History: Working as an Historian; Early People and
Ancient Societies; Stone Age People; Bronze Age
People.
History
Visual Arts
Science
Geography
Suitable for 1st – 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
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: 30 euro plus VAT for 10 days.
Art
History
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