Learning events and school workshops

Learning with Bristol’s museums means exciting encounters with real artefacts, documents and artworks from some of the UK’s finest collections.

We offer lots of different ways for you to engage including handling sessions, costumed role-play, gallery activities and opportunities to meet our experts. Here are our learning events and school workshops that we offer across our museums:

Workshop: Ancient Greeks

What can decorated pots tell us about life in ancient Greece over 2500 years ago?

Workshop: Ancient Egypt

Follow the adventures of Egyptologist, Amelia Edwards, in this hands-on session about her life-changing journey ‘a thousand miles up the Nile’.

Workshop: Ships and Sailors

Learn about the ill-fated voyage of the Bristol Merchant ship in 1675 and the dangers faced by sailors at sea during the 17th century. Fun, informative and hands-on-deck!

Workshop: Toys

Discover what toys are made from and how they work, then take some time to play!

KS2 webinar: Predators and Prey

Some animals are predators and some are prey. This relationship is one of the most important in nature, but what are the anatomical differences that decide an animal’s fate?

School loan box: Make a museum

Investigate the mystery objects in our Make a Museum loan box and use them to create a museum in your classroom.

School loan box: Toys in the past

Borrow our loan box of real and replica objects to discover more about the toys that children played with in the past.

School loan box: Ghana textiles

Borrow our Ghana textiles box filled with colourful fabrics and discover what they can tell us about textile crafts in West Africa.