Heritage Education Service

An exploration of old and new toys. This session is a practical, hands-on session and children will play with a Victorian jumping monkey toy, handle a pretty Edwardian lady doll and have fun with a host of lovely toys from the museum's collections.

This session explores different types of materials through museum objects. Children will have a hands-on exploration of objects and different types of gloves and will record their findings.

This is a session based on an exploration of what life was like for country children in Victorian times. Children will learn about life as it might have been for their own ancestors living in a rural county.

An exploration of Tudor life using roleplay and real and replica objects in the wonderful period surroundings of The Old House Hereford.

This session uses fantastic resources such as original Roman artefacts and top quality replicas to help children find out about Romans locally.

Children will groove to the sounds of the last sixty years, strut their funky stuff in original costume from the museum's collections. They will handle a wide variety of objects dating from 40's to the 90's and learn about changes in musical style, popular culture, fashion, lifestyles and technology throughout the post war decades.

Why are the rollers of a mangle made of rubber? What on earth could be made out of sharkskin?
Why is the butterchurn made of glass?
This session has the most impressive range of materials for schools anywhere in the county.

Do you know your newtons? This session allows children to use their creative and deductive skills to make their own forcemeter. They will also measure the gravitational force of museum objects in newtons, first in air and then in water. This session is for children with some prior knowledge.