Portsmouth Museums Educational Workshops

There is a lot to see and do on your visit to our museums. However, to make the most of your visit you may wish to book one of our specialist led workshops, available at most of our sites, as described below or take advantage of our outreach services.

The Home Front Experience

Find out what everyday life was like on the home front and how families coped during the Second World War.

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Discovering D-Day

Intensive study days which are proven to motivate students for English, Maths or History and ‘narrow the gap’.

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Toys, Games and Pastimes Workshop

Our expert museum staff will lead this fun ‘hands on’ session. The whole aim is to allow the children to play and investigate.

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The Victorians Uncovered

Pupils are asked to investigate the type of objects that might have been used in the household of a wealthy Southsea Doctor and author in the later Victorian period.

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Living Victorian Experience

Join us as we go back to Victorian times and are taken to an atmospheric home where the senses are fully engaged and the imagination immediately takes over.

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The Tudors at Southsea Castle

Let us transport you and your pupils through time. Take this amazing opportunity to experience life in a castle inhabited by Tudor characters.

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The Tudors at the Square Tower

Get a real experience of different aspects of Tudor life in the atmospheric setting of the Square Tower when you book a visit to meet the Governor’s wife, Lady Avis, and her household.

The Tutor to the household will be happy to school you in the use of the quill and teach the children their letters.

The master at arms will expect everyone over the age of eight to be
practising with their bow at the butts each Sunday. He will be testing
their skill and looking for new recruits for the town Trayned Band.

Beside the huge fireplace our maid will show you a collection of Tudor
clothing. Find out how sweetmeats are made and how to churn butter.
See what everyday items are found in her oak chest.

To complete a full day’s Tudor experience we can offer a complementary visit to Southsea Castle on the same day, either morning or afternoon.
Lunch facilities available on request for groups at The Square Tower
and Southsea Castle.
For the Square Tower your class can be dropped off and picked up at
the junction of Broad Street and High Street.

Outreach Workshops - Playing Away (KS1/Early Yrs)

Playing is never just a thing of the past. The aim is to allow the children to play and investigate. They will find out about board and card games, games of skill, dolls, figures and puppets and how all these pastimes have changed through time.

This session will provide the chance to compare old and new, identify different materials, group similar toys such as toy vehicles and find out how simple mechanical toys developed right up to our own time.
It can also be tailored for Key Stage 2 age groups.

Outreach Workshops - 1940s Family (KS 2)

The 1940s Family examines the impact that the Second World War had on people’s everyday lives through artefacts, posters and documents. Find out what it was like to be at school during the war.
Discover how rationing affected people and what items they used in order to ‘make do’.
This engaging session will illustrate the trials of the evacuation, the struggles of rationing and the power of propaganda. Re-live a practice gas attack, try on different clothing and play a game from the period.

To find out more or to book any of these session please phone
(023) 9282 7261 or email mvs@portsmouthcc.gov.uk 

 

Portsmouth City Museums & Records Service are part of Portsmouth City Council