What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 3 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

Years 7 to 8

Cost

TBC + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings : Register your interest

New from August 2025 – details coming soon! 

Register your interest and be the first to know about an exciting new exhibition and workshop aligning to the Year 7 and 8 history curriculum – Europe and the Mediterranean World (c. 600-1750CE). 

Students will experience

• A close look at some treasured, precious artefacts.
• Deeper insight into a society which leads to the modern world.

Students will learn

• About the methods and work of archaeologists and historians.
• How objects have stories and what they can tell us about the past.
• About the contested nature of history.
• To interpret and analyse evidence.  

Victorian Curriculum links

History: level 7 to 8

Investigation: Europe and the Mediterranean world (c. 600–1750 CE)

• significant social, cultural, economic, environmental and political continuity and change in the way of life and the roles and relationships of different groups
  VC2HH8K19
• causes and consequences of a significant event, development or turning point that contributed to continuity and change
  VC2HH8K20
• experiences and perspectives of rulers and ruled, and the interaction between power and/or authority
  VC2HH8K21
• historical interpretations of an event, individual, group or institution and its legacies
  VC2HH8K23

Historical Concepts and Skills

• develop and use historical questions to inform historical investigations
  VC2HH8S01
• explain the features, content and context of historical sources
  VC2HH8S03
• analyse the value of sources for use as evidence to explain historical significance, continuity and change, and causes and consequences
  VC2HH8S04
• explain the perspectives, beliefs, values and attitudes of people and groups based on evidence from a range of sources
  VC2HH8S05
• analyse historical interpretations and debates
  VC2HH8S06