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Before you visit At the Museum After you visit

Museum visits can provide children with a whole new learning experience. Contact with objects stimulates the imagination, challenges powers of observation and encourages the skills of deduction and analysis.

However visiting a museum for the first time can be daunting particularly for young children. So in this section of the website you will find suggestions on how to prepare your class for their visit through discussion of what a museum is and with a series of games to help develop their observation skills.

You can adapt the ideas to suit either KS1 or 2 and to the range and ability of pupils in your class.

Activity and support sheet download table

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Activity sheets
Title	Description	Word	PDF
All Before you visit sheets	All Before you visit activity sheets	83 KB	48 KB
Making a mini museum	Discussing museums and making your own. Teachers' notes	57 KB	42 KB
Observation and vocabulary games	Teachers' notes	58 KB	41 KB
Overview sheets
Title	Description	Word	PDF
KS1 Overview	QCA and NC overview of all KS1 sheets	167 KB	66 KB
KS2 Overview	QCA and NC overview of all KS2 sheets	161 KB	65 KB

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