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A mammoth adventure for families and schools
Brand new galleries at Corinium Museum take children on a journey from the pre-historic Cotswolds to Roman Cirencester.
Visit Corinium Museum’s brand new Stone Age to Early Roman galleries! When families enter the new galleries they step back into the past, greeted by a huge tusk and teeth from a woolly mammoth which used to roam the Cotswold landscape. Handmade stone tools and tiny flints are clues left behind by people who lived alongside mammoths and other animals in this area. As you make your way through time from the Palaeolithic era to the Neolithic, beautiful pottery emerges. Yellow metals shine from the display cases with bronze axes and even gold jewellery telling visitors that the Bronze Age has arrived.
By the time families reach the Iron Age, they are welcomed by an Iron Age dog skeleton, nick-named Rusty through the museum’s ‘Name the Iron Age Dog’ competition. Children are invited to explore the replica round house with soft-play logs, a cauldron and a wood fire creating a realistic but safe experience of Iron Age living. Finally, the Romans arrive, bringing the Roman cavalry with their horses to Cirencester. The new galleries have interactive films and handling objects to bring the past to life for everyone.
To accompany this, Corinium Museum has launched a fantastic new Stone Age to Iron Age workshop for schools which encourages children to explore the ancient past through hands-on activities. Children can roleplay characters by dressing up in Stone Age furs, Bronze Age tunics or patterned, Iron Age clothing. Secret feely boxes ask them to guess the ancient object. Is it a bronze axe, a fishing net, an ancient pot, or something else? Baskets of food are waiting to be sorted – did people from the past eat the same food as we do today? And a fun jigsaw lets children recreate the settlements from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age periods. The museum also has Stone Age to Iron Age loans boxes for schools with all resources meeting KS2 national curriculum requirements, making learning lots of fun!
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