Resources, activities and visits
Free self-led visits
Cost: free
We want to support educators to make the very most of a museum visit and explore the galleries at your own pace. All self-led visits will include access to galleries (including time in the Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibition) and a short ‘welcome to the museum’ in the Belonging Gallery on arrival.
Self-led visits can be enhanced through the use of a range of free resources. A welcome film will show you what to expect when you arrive and downloadable resource packs are available to use before, during and after a self-led visit. More self-led resources will be released throughout 2023. Sign up to our Primary e-newsletter to find out more
To book a self-led school visit, please complete our booking form.
The Big Questions
Cost: free
The Big Question is the ultimate way to enhance your self-led visit to Manchester Museum. Bring your topic to life and connect with our curators through a combination of free pre-and post-visit resources, all helping your pupils to look, connect, explain and wonder.
A short film presented by one of our curators will frame your museum visit around an open-ended enquiry prompt that will support you to plan a whole topic linked to the collection. Alongside this you will have access to a downloadable (and editable) resource pack to help introduce the enquiry question before visiting with simple classroom activities, ideas for using the galleries during your visit, and prompts to use back at school. Feedback your ideas, answers and questions to us at the end of your project, with museum-led livestreams coming in summer 2023.
Find out more about our Big Questions.
To request a self-led visit with The Big Question, please complete our booking form.
Monday takeovers
Cost: £250 per class
On selected Mondays our museum is dedicated entirely to schools! Bring your class for a whole day at the museum to explore a particular theme, through gallery time, object handling, trails and a chance to meet the curator.
Themes:
- 22 May – Golden Mummies of Egypt
- 5 June – Our Shared Environment
- 26 June – Golden Mummies of Egypt
- 10 July – Golden Mummies of Egypt
More details about our Monday Takeovers will be released soon. Sign up to our Primary e-newsletter to find out more.
To request more information, please complete an enquiry form .
Inflatable Museum
1 class in a day: £250
2 classes in a day: £380
3 classes in a day: £500
The wondrous Inflatable Museum is an immersive learning environment designed to bring the wonder and imagination of Manchester Museum to school halls across Greater Manchester. It can accommodate a full school class and their accompanying adult helpers; approximately 36 people in total. We can visit schools within 30 minutes’ drive time from M13 9PL.
We offer two sessions: Our Ancient Egypt workshop will ask your class to take on the roles of Egyptologists and Curators and, using object handling and team work, they will create their own Museum of Egyptology. In our Curious Classification Workshop your students will use our taxidermy handling collection to explore different ways of approaching classifying and grouping creatures from around the world.
To book the Inflatable Museum, please complete our booking form.
Find out more about the Inflatable Museum and how it works.
Pop-up Healing Chapel
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1 class in a day: £250
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2 classes in a day: £380
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3 classes in a day: £500
Our Pop-Up Museum recreates an ancient Egyptian ‘Healing Chapel’ in your school hall. The workshop uses real artefacts, an interactive trail and more to compare how the ancient Egyptians kept well with how we look after ourselves today. This workshop is a great way to build on an ancient civilisations topic whilst supporting class discussions about wellbeing.
Find out more about the Pop-up Healing Chapel.
To book the Healing Chapel, please complete our booking form.