Outreach options

Communications

How and why do we communicate? How did we communicate before electricity? Are some methods more efficient than others or better in certain circumstances? How did telegrams and telegraphy develop?
These questions and many others are asked as starting points for this workshop.
An animated and interactive workshop, using lots of artefacts from the museum collection and their modern equivalents that invite the pupils to get involved in activities and discussions and which stimulate their imaginations.
Artefacts include bells, buzzers, flags, telegrams and more!

New! Communication Workshop Downloads

Download Communication Teacher’s Guide (PDF, 720KB)
Download KS2 Communication Workshop Outline (PDF, 310KB)
Download KS3 Communication Workshop Outline (PDF, 307KB)
Download Pre- and Post-visit Activities: Telegraph, Telegrams & Science (Word Doc, 3525KB)

Coming Soon! Download details for other workshops

Light Fantastic

This workshop is suitable for all ages and can be done in school or at the museum. It uses interactives, artefacts and images to investigate what light is, how it works, how we see things and some of the tricks that light can play. A fun workshop but also packed full of interesting facts and information that supports the science and DT curricula.

Electrifying Victorians

This workshop covers history and science in an exciting and fun way. It investigates how the use of electricity developed and impacted on the Victorian world. See 'History workshops' for more details.

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