A visit from international experts
Every year, the British Museum runs the International Training Programme for museum and heritage professionals from around the world. The aim is to develop skills, increase specialist knowledge and create a global network of colleagues sharing expertise and best practice. An essential part of the Annual Programme is time spent at another UK museum and Lincoln Museum has participated in this...Read More
Award-winning learning at Museum of Lincolnshire Life
The team at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life has been recognised for the outstanding learning programme they offer schools, colleges and universities. Already since the start of September, the Museum of Lincolnshire Life has welcomed over 500 pupils and students on educational visits, teaching them about the county’s history. The Sandford Award – in partnership with Bishop Grosseteste...Read More
Unlocking the Mysteries of Mummification
We are very excited to introduce the newest member of the Investigate Learning team – our fabulous mummification doll! Now your class can get hands on and practice embalming with our more realistic body, complete with viscera for them to carefully extract. We’ve researched and developed this new resource to ensure it gives as immersive and accurate an experience as possible....Read More
Secondary school learning across our sites
We have combined our offers for older students into one leaflet so that you can easily see the full range for History and Art examination courses or case studies. We are excited to be welcoming students for their activities this summer term! Read More
The Wild Escape workshop announcement – Stop motion animation for beginners
Friday 14th April, 10am-1pm Museum of Lincolnshire Life Have you always wanted to have a go at animating your own movie? Well now you can learn the basics of stop motion with Investigate Learning team animator Hannah, who has animated our museum Rusti the squirrel! .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; }...Read More
Fantastic Earth Day event
We are busy planning this fantastic Earth Day event so join us at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life for a great day! There will be… Information stalls supporting the environment and loads of ideas about sustainability Demonstrations in wood turning and hedge laying Dancing and music Pottery sessions Creative arts collage and crafts. Edible flower planting – make your own plant pot! Rusti the...Read More
We are part of the Wild Escape project
Fantastic news! The Investigate Learning team are excited to be part of the Wild Escape project this year. We will be hosting school groups, community groups, family events and an Earth Day extravaganza at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. Watch this space for more information as we release our events!! The Wild Escape is a major new project led by Art Fund uniting hundreds of museums with...Read More
Sandford Award for Investigate Lincoln Castle!
Great news! We’re excited to announce that the Lincoln Castle Investigate Learning team have received the Sandford Award for heritage learning!! For each of the assessment categories, we received the highest score, which is great news for our enthusiastic learning team. We’re so pleased to share this amazing site with our learning visitors. Sandford Award Lead Assessor wrote: Lincoln Castle...Read More
The Power of the Sun Animation
We are excited to launch our new Fusion energy animation and are lucky to have Hannah Brown as a member of our learning team. Her animation brings to life this current environmental topic and encourages us to ponder both the past and the future! We even have a Tokamak physicist speaking on the film – very inspiring! We are linking to our prehistoric gold artefacts on site and from November...Read More