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Museum Education & Learning

One of the Museum's core services is our Education and Learning service, providing interactive, educational and fun sessions both formally to schools, and informally to groups of all ages, other organisations and general visitors.  Our education and learning service continues, however, staff will be going out to the schools/colleges because the museum is closed.

We offer a wide range of sessions, on site or via outreach, as well as other facilities for schools and colleges.

Pre-booked sessions and general information

To book a visit to Peterborough Museum:

Call the Education Team on 01733 864660

E-mail: museum.education@peterborough.gov.uk

We welcome pre-visits from teachers and will do our best to be available to see you to discuss any issues or questions you may have (one of the team is usually available throughout museum opening hours).

We can usually accommodate 2 classes at a time, although we have worked with up to 4 in certain circumstances and will always try our best to accommodate you. Most sessions are approximately 1 hour long, although sessions can always be adapted to meet your individual needs. Sessions usually start at 10am and finish at 3.30pm, Monday to Friday, subject to availability, they last an hour.

We have tailored sessions especially to meet the needs of individual classes if you think we can help you to deliver something not listed, please don't hesitate to contact us and we will try to help where possible.

Session Charges

Accompanying Adults are free of charge

Alternatively, come for the day, three or more sessions:

Facilities

We have cloakroom facilities for pre-booked groups and an indoor lunch space which you can book in advance.

Parking facilities are, unfortunately, limited and we cannot guarantee that spaces will be available.  When booking your coach it is a good idea to ask that the driver brings you to the museum entrance and collects you from there at the end of your visit, although the coach will need to be taken to a nearby coach park for the duration of the visit.

We can supply proforma risk assessments for your visit, but strongly recommend that schoolteachers amend these to cover their own needs.

Sessions offered cover the following subject areas:

History  - Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Tudors, English Civil War, Georgians (Norman Cross), Victorians, World War II, 1950s.

Science - Animals, rocks and fossils, bones

Art - colours, portraits, patterns, using objects

Although aimed primarily at Key Stage 2, many of these sessions can be targetted to cover age ranges from Key Stage 1 to 4.

Contact the Education Team on 01733 343329 or email museum.education@peterborough.gov.uk.

Many of Peterborough’s most popular cultural and sporting facilities are part of Vivacity, an independent, not-for-profit organisation with charitable status.

Find out more about the trust on the Vivacity website.