Collection & Exhibition Tours
Collection and Exhibition tours for those in Higher Education.
Collection and Exhibition tours for those in Higher Education.
The Hunt Museum offers discounted, engaging guided gallery visits of the permanent collection and special exhibitions for classes from FE colleges and universities.
These seminar-style discussions are led by Museum staff and can be specifically designed to enhance professors’ curricula. Through close observation and guided discussion, students explore art, history, world cultures or museology.
Opportunities are also available to develop collaborative projects culminating in online and gallery-based exhibitions and installations.
For more information please contact Maria Cagney, Curator of Education and Outreach.
Relevant to the Junior cycle
Duration: 60 mins
€3.50 per student, teachers go free!
During this workshop, students will use their senses to analyse and evaluate various replica objects. This will enable them to construct historical narratives, and interpret what life was like in the Stone Age and Bronze Age.
They will also take a tour of the prehistoric objects in the Hunt Museum’s Permanent Collection.
This is also available as a loan box.
The Hunt Museum offers a range of different loan boxes containing an array of handling material, and activity resources, that can bring the past to life in the classroom.
This can be used to learn about Ireland in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.
Cost: 30 euro plus VAT for 10 days.
History
Visual Art
English
Science
Environmental Social Studies
For 3rd and 4th Classes
Cost: 3.50 per pupil, teachers go free!
Duration: 60 mins
Created by American illustrator Ingrid Hess, this exhibition is an exciting opportunity for students to thematically explore the objects, and practices, of the Bronze Age in Ireland.
A Primary School workshop is also available. In this workshop, students can investigate the Bronze Age collections on display in the Hunt Museum.
When students handle replica artefacts, inquiry led learning is supported alongside trying out some simple prehistoric technologies.
History
Visual Arts
Science
Geography