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’.

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.

Workshop: Toys

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

My School: A local history study

Your Bristol school, whether old or new, has a fascinating past. Learn the skills of an Archivist and delve into the history of your local area. What will you discover during My School: a local history study?