Explore our broad range of half-day (90 mins) workshops including interactive sessions in our new museum galleries and exploratory adventures in the magical Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery.
We offer a memorable day out for your group, whether your purpose is to inspire learning at the start of a topic, or to build on knowledge previously learned in class.
Pair two sessions to create a whole day experience and make use of our lunchroom (must be requested at time of booking.)
NB: For Roald Dahl visits the Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery Experience takes place in the gallery itself. Other Roald Dahl linked workshops take place in a learning room at the museum.
Discover toys from Roman, Tudor, Victorian times and the present day in this play-filled workshop. Become history detectives, comparing replica objects and organising on a timeline before making a Victorian toy to take away.
Discover our hidden Tudor Rooms and carry out research using inventories of real Bucks residents. Learn about life, customs and try your hand at quill writing!
Investigate the Romans through object-handling, museum exploration and taught activities. Find out about Roman food, fun and warfare.
Can be taught as a whole day option, with the addition of shield-making and finishing with role play battle.
Welcome to the fabulous Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery where children can explore the world around them through the stories of Roald Dahl; crawl along Fantastic Mr Fox’s tunnel, investigate minibeasts inside the Giant Peach and discover sound with the BFG. Plus much more hands on Science fun!
Explore our wildlife gallery and find out what makes crocodiles the perfect predators. Then create a predator puppet of your own!
Investigate Matilda’s links to Bucks and be inspired by her love of reading. Design your own book bag to take back home (or to a library!)
Explore the wonderful world of minibeasts in this bug-collecting workshop. Get creative designing your own bug and think up a name for the new specimen.
Think about what life is like for the Bucket family and help Charlie’s bedridden grandparents experience the joy of the outside world by making them a new museum-inspired quilt.
Find out about Roald Dahl, his life, works and inspiration, and explore the gallery, seeing the world through the author’s eyes.
Discover our museum collections and make magical dream bottles full of creative-writing inspiration to take back to school.
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Buckinghamshire County Museum Trust
Trading as Discover Bucks Museum
Church Street,
Aylesbury,
HP20 2QP
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