Date/Time:

Friday 29 August 2025, 5pm onwards

Location:

Melbourne Museum

Duration:

3 hours

Cost:

TBC

Save the Date! Bookings open 19 June 2025.

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Teachers are invited to the opening night of the Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard exhibition.

Buried around AD 900, the Galloway Hoard brings together a stunning variety of materials and treasures from Ireland, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and as far away as Asia. The Hoard transports us back to a critical movement in history: the formation of the political entities we now know as Scotland, England and Ireland, in a time of Viking raids.

Along with the remarkable objects themselves, the exhibition features ground-breaking research into these treasures and what they reveal about Viking-age Britain.

In a special session for teachers, we will explore the hands-on collection, exact replicas of the precious Galloway Hoard artefacts created by National Museums Scotland. Together we will examine how the Galloway Hoard can help bring the Viking-Age to life in their classroom and the power of primary sources to inspire and spark curiosity in students.

We will then visit the exhibition before settling in for a curator lecture with National Museums Scotland curator Dr Martin Goldberg. In this fascinating lecture, Dr Martin Goldberg explores the significance of the Viking Age treasures. Expanding on one of the most significant Viking-age hoards ever found in the British Isles, this talk provides unique insights into its historical and archaeological importance.

This very special event has limited availability and is sure to book out. Bookings open 19 June 2025. Don’t miss out!

Program covers

• How primary sources can shift perspectives and understandings of the past.
• Sparking curiosity in students with artefacts and objects.
• New developments in research and understanding of the Viking-age.

Teachers will be provided

• Resources and useful tools for using the Galloway Hoard in the History classroom.
• The opportunity to hear from Dr Martin Goldberg, National Museums Scotland’s Principal Curator of Medieval Archaeology and History
• The chance to be one of the first to see the Treasures of the Viking Age: Galloway Hoard exhibition at Melbourne Museum.