Collection Museum Virtual gallery scan
Very exciting news! During our Festival of Archaeology we launched our new Collection Museum Virtual gallery scan. You will be able to explore the gallery with your students and develop your own interpretation for the collections. We are now devising new digital learning activities to support you so let us know if there are topics you would like us to focus in on! Read More
New ‘Your Patch of Earth’ Arts Award launched
The Investigate learning team is delighted to launch a brand new Arts Award offer for budding artists aged 5 to 25. Take inspiration from our ‘Your Patch of Earth’ project to earn yourself an Arts Award ‘Discover’ certificate. Arts Award is a nationally recognised qualification from Trinity College London and ‘Discover’ is the first level....Read More
What a great day on the walls of Lincoln Castle!
Day 1 of our filming with Paradigm Arts and the Investigate Learning team have started production of our new Investigate from the Castle Walls digital project kit. We certainly learnt a lot about filming in windy conditions and had great fun!! Watch this space for more on this new development in the coming months. Read More
Go green and get creative with ‘Your Patch of Earth’
Do you enjoy getting creative? Do you want to care for the planet? Well, if you answered ‘yes’ then this project is definitely for you! ‘Your Patch of Earth’ is our new creative arts project, encouraging you to get arty whilst considering environmental themes. All our activities also link to our wonderful heritage sites and collections. Learn how to ‘make do...Read More
We are looking to commission new artists
The Investigate Learning Team are looking to commission four artists who are at an early stage in their careers. The artists will create a bespoke style for new Arts Award resources that relate to our Creative Arts Kits. We are able to pay each of the artists £500, which has been made possible due to our Art Fund Respond and Reimagine grant award. Closing date is Sunday...Read More
Online Exhibition Learning Project
Online Exhibition Learning Project in response to the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain in partnership with the Imperial War Museum We are excited to bring you our collaborative digital Exhibition Learning Project that explores, interprets and responds to a selection of art works that reflect the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Over the next 8 weeks we will showcase...Read More
Take our new Viking Virtual Voyage Quiz
The learning team have been digging a little deeper into Lincolnshire’s Viking history since the release of the new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla video game. The game features ‘Lincolnscire’ and it allows you to explore a fictionalised version of Lincoln in the 9th Century. We’ve created a new interactive quiz to test your knowledge about the...Read More
Lincoln Castle – Lucy the dragon big draw
Lucy the Dragon is turning even more green – she is very excited and needs your help! Calling all you budding artists, designers and inventors for our Big Green Draw Exhibition. Have a go at designing new and extraordinary environmentally friendly inventions for Lucy to use around Lincoln Castle. Be as imaginative and magical as possible! We were thinking you could design us a...Read More
Puppies and poppies! Remembrance day 2020
With all the restrictions imposed upon us as a result of the pandemic, sadly we are not able run our wonderful Poppy Remembrance workshops this year with the fabulously talented Ruth Pigott. However after speaking to both Ruth and the celebrated poet Ash Dickinson, who many schools have worked with before, we have put together both a KS1 and KS2 workshop which are available on our Aviation...Read More