School visits to Andover Museum

Andover Museum is offering new led sessions by a museum facilitator for Schools.
Entrance to the Museum will remain free. To make a booking please phone Andover Museum tel 01264 366283. For further information on the sessions, please contact Owain Hughes, Education Officer

Art Workshops. (KS1 and KS2)

Our resident artist is here to help your class push their artistic abilities to the full.
Using natural and social history artefacts as a starting point, you will be led through your chosen art media with expert skill to produce either 3D or 2D masterpieces. See our website for the full art workshop menu.

• All Art Workshop sessions

Local Studies Detectives

A 2 hour session, run by education staff, looking at the change over time of Andover High Street. Using maps, photographs, census returns, trade directories and artefacts, pupils will investigate the development of town centre from the Victorian era to the present day.

Also available is an all day session, that comprises of  a ‘Local Studies Detectives’ session in the morning, then eat your packed lunch at the museum followed by a self led museum town trail in the afternoon

• Local Sudies Detectives session plan

Victorians Session

The chance to explore the town's busy Victorian past, covering all aspects of the national curriculum. Situated in the former Victorian grammar school, exhibits cover the development of the railways, the infamous workhouse scandal, local entrepreneur and town mayor Thomas Heath and much more.

The session includes handling real Victorian artefacts from the collection
Victorians session plan

Britain since the 1930s

The museum's exhibition shows how the Andover area soon became busy with army and air force during WWII. It wasn't just the armed forces who were effected. The exhibition and our large handling collection show how everyday life was impacted by the war. From gas masks to washing dollies, this session brings fun as well as practical learning to this period of history.

• Andover through War and Peace session plan

Exploring history through art

Practical and fun artist led sessions exploring Celts/invaders. These sessions are especially popular with years 1/2/3/4

• Belts and Brooches, making replica Iron Age jewellery
  Belts session plan
• Celtic knot work - design and print onto cloth
• Roundhouse building - design challenge to model build
• Pottery Artefacts – artistically recreating archaeology using texture and colour in collage
  Pottery Artefacts session plan
• Weaving and textiles - create a mini loom and making cloth
• Historic still life - a choice of period ranging from iron age to post 1930s Britain

Natural history session

Session based on QCA Science Units ranging from years 4 to 6 on the themes of habitat, adaptation and the food chain. An opportunity for children to handle examples from the food chain, from insects to preserved mammals.

• Nature’s Food Chain in Test Valley (KS2) session plan