Learning and Education at Erewash Museum
School Visits Booking Form Loan Box Booking Form
School Visits Booking Form Loan Box Booking Form
On this page you will find information about the kind of learning opportunities we offer at Erewash Museum. At the moment we provide a "Living History" service for schools and a variety of themed sessions for adult groups.
We also offer a couple of activities for children to take part in informally as they look around the Museum, these are available for you to download on the Erewash Museum page in the menu on the left hand side.
You can download a pdf version of our Learning Guide to find out in detail the kind of sessions we offer or alternatively look below for a brief overview of the information.
We ask all school parties that visit us to fill in an evaluation form. Click here to download a copy of the report on the findings from last year's evaluation. You can find out more details by filling in the enquiry form at the bottom of this page.
School Visits
We are committed to providing resources and activities tailored to the National Curriculum, especially at Key Stages 1 and 2. As a result, we aim to fit the following areas into our activities and loan box material:
- Chronological understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
- Historical interpretation
- Historical enquiry
- Organisation and communication
We can provide sessions for single class groups with an adult to child ratio of 1:6. After a brief introduction, you will be asked to divide your party into two groups, one group will do a museum-led session and one will do a teacher-led session, the groups will then swap over. The activities encourage children to engage with objects in a variety of ways, including detailed observation, use, drawing, discussion and comparison with modern equivalents. Click on the underlined sections below to download more information.
- General information for Teachers
- Ground floor plan of the Museum
- First floor plan of the Museum
Museum-led sessions include:
- Victorian Life Through Objects (Key Stage 1 & 2: Victorian Britain)
- Victorian Wash Day (Key Stage 1 & 2: Victorian Britain)
- Local History Hounds (Key Stage 1 & 2: Local History and Victorian Britain)
- Wartime Life (Key Stage 1 & 2: Britain Since 1930)
- Industrialisation and Child Labour (Key Stage 1 & 2: Victorian Britain)
- Musical History (Key Stage 2: Tudors, Victorian Britain, Britain since 1930)
Teacher-led sessions include:
- House and Home History Trail (Key Stage 2: Local History) (Sample Worksheet) (Answers)
- Victorian Life Through Objects (Key Stage 1 & 2: Victorian Britain) (Sample Worksheet)
- Victorian Toys and Games (Key Stage 1 & 2: Victorian Britain)
- Local History Session (Key Stage 1 - 3: Historical Understanding)
- Museum Tour (Key Stage 1 - 3)
- Wartime News (Key Stage 2: Britain since 1930)
We also offer Loan Boxes which can be borrowed by schools or local groups. These boxes contain real historical objects, replica objects for activities that are more lively, photos and picture resources and ideas for activities around the subject focus. We are now offering a brand new service call Facilitated Loans which involves a member of museum staff visiting your school to work with the children around your chosen loan box or subject.
All school visits and education sessions must be booked in advance. You can download a school visits or a loan box booking form above. If you require further information please contact Erewash Museum Tel: 0115 9071141.
Sessions for Adult Groups
We provide sessions for adult groups that focus on reminiscing together and learning from one another as well as playing games and handling the objects. Popular subjects include:
- Domestic Life Objects
- Mystery Objects
- Washday
- Toys and Games
We can also offer a virtual tour of the museum for outside groups, as either a substitute or a taster before visiting the museum in person.
For further information please contact Erewash Museum.