Location – DERBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Duration: 120 minutes 

Booking and Prices: £6.50 + VAT per pupil. This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum). 

Key Stage: Key Stage 2

TO BOOK: Fill Out Our Booking Form or email us at learn@derbymuseums.org.

Session Description: Immerse your class in a rich ancient Egyptian experience with our Egyptology collection. The children will learn how to read and write hieroglyphs and hear the fascinating story of the scribe Ramose, finding out about life in Ancient Egypt over 3000 years ago. The class will be split into groups where they will learn about mummification, see real artefacts, handle some replica shabtis and visit Pypyu and Pa-Sheri, the mummified people who are in the care of Derby Museums, Within this session, the students will create some artwork using carbon paper, drawing a shabti to take home!

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National Curriculum Links Include:

• Aims to ensure that pupils: “Know and understand significant aspects of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations: the expansion and dissolution of empires: characteristics of non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind…pupils should be taught about the achievements of the earliest civilisations”, (including Ancient Egypt).