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

Investigate the development of human technology from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Handle 500,000 year old tools and unlock the secrets of how they were made and what they were used for.

Would you like to investigate paintings and learn how to talk confidently about art? Join us in the art galleries to see magnificent paintings from our Bristol collections. Develop spoken language skills when exploring great artworks to become the ‘art expert’.

How and why did artists paint epic landscapes or images of nature? Bring your class to the museum and together we’ll study great works of art.

Children will take part in hands-on dinosaur themed activities suitable for all budding palaeontologists!

Do pictures really tell stories? Discover how myths and legends have influenced artworks in our museum collection. Your class will have the opportunity to explore our paintings and develop their spoken language skills during this hands-on workshop.

What stories and hidden messages can you find in the portraits from our Bristol collections? Bring your school to join us in our galleries for a special art workshop.

Discover the fascinating world of geology with activities investigating how rocks and soils are made. Discover what a geologist does, find out how plate tectonics shape our geological landscape, identify types of rocks using their features and make a soi…

Join us for a day of creative writing and achieve a ‘Discover’ Arts Award along the way! Explore our art galleries, compose art-inspired poetry and then perform your pieces.