Our specialist Primary and Secondary school workshops use objects for evidence-based learning and enquiry work in a rarely seen behind the scenes working Museum environment. The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre is a true working environment, where art, science, technology and humanities collide and are applied.
Set in the heart of this state of the art facility is our learning department with modern classroom and seminar spaces designed to support STEM and Humanities based learning offering unrivalled opportunities to explore and understand objects as never before from a cultural, material and analytical perspective.
Our school programmes support pupils to use our collections to build scientific investigation skills, visual literacy, critical thinking, historical enquiry and language skills. We invite pupils to use their imagination and activate their curiosity to ask questions, create stories, play and take a really close look at the things around us.
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Onsite primary sessions
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| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collection Centre | |
| Curriculum links | PSHE and Science | |
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| Capacity | 30 pupils per group | |
| Price | £60 per session, Free for Greenwich schools |
Put on a lab coat and become a conservator for the day and use practical scientific methods and skills to identify materials and their different properties. Pupils will have fun investigating a range of objects within the collection as well as discovering what they are made from. Pupils will leave knowing how to look after their special possessions and express what they are made from.
| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collection Centre | |
| Curriculum links | Science and Art & Design | |
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| Capacity | 30 pupils per group | |
| Price | £60 per session, Free for Greenwich schools |
Our skilled conservators work hard in the studio ensuring the collection looks its best using a range of skills. See the science behind the collection as pupils support our conservators prepare our textile collection for display. Pupils will experience in house experiments exploring filtering, evaporation, and solubility.
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| Curriculum links | Literacy and Thematic based learning | |
| Session times | Mondays and Thursdays Sessions last 2 hours | |
| Capacity | 30 pupils per group | |
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Do you collect things or have specific objects that you consider to be important or special? If so, you have already started to create your own museum. The idea of creating a museum sounds scary but in fact a museum is just like a book with lots of little stories inside it. Our team of museum specialist are ready to visit your school and give you the tools to create a museum in your very own classroom
| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collection Centre | |
| Curriculum links | Science and Art & Design | |
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| Capacity | 30 pupils per group | |
| Price | £60 per session, Free for Greenwich schools |
With one of the most unique and vast collections of globes and maps, There is no better place to learn about the world. Join us as we identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle and the Greenwich Meridian. Discover why maps look like they and learn about the people behind important geographical items.
| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collections Centre and Outreach | ||
| Curriculum links | Literacy and History | ||
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| Capacity | 30 pupils per group | ||
| Price | £150 per class, £90 per class for Greenwich schools (maximum of 30 pupils per class) |
Our specialist story store team are looking for schools to loan our collection to, in exchange of exciting writing inspired by our collection. The Story store team will install an exciting and unique mystery object from our collection into your class room along with an ideas planning session. The pupils will then get to visit the Story store to file away their story next to other magnificent objects that will inspire further writing.
Onsite secondary sessions
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| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collection Centre | |
| Curriculum links | Geography | |
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| Capacity | 30 pupils per group | |
| Price | Free |
Come and use our outstanding collection of geographical information, including maps, diagrams and globes. Be inspired by objects ranging from rare Portolan charts from 1400’s to modern day Geographical Information Systems. Learners will build on their knowledge of globes, maps and atlases and apply and develop this knowledge through a range of activities.
| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collection Centre |
| Curriculum links | Careers |
| Session times | Mondays 10.00-14.00 |
| Capacity | 30 pupils per group |
| Price | Free |
Come and discover how you can apply the skills you learn at school within the Museum and Heritage Industry. Students will meet with professionals working in the arts and heritage industry and discover the different types of careers they can do with their skill set and how to access those roles.
| Location | Prince Phillip Maritime Collection Centre | |
| Curriculum links | Careers | |
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| Capacity | 6 | |
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Get on the career ladder and see first-hand what working life is like behind the scenes in the museum. Participants will be challenged to create, promote and deliver a tour for their friends and family. Participants will learn about presentation skills, promotion and marketing, public speaking, conservation and historical enquiry through the support of our museum and heritage specialists.