Planning and Booking a Visit 2009/10
- Mary Rose Museum and Workshops
- Practical Information for Teachers
- Pupils with Special Needs: Resources and Information
Transform your teaching of the Tudors! Bring the Tudor period alive by visiting the Mary Rose Museum. Thousands of artefacts were rescued from the bottom of the sea. They provide a unique picture of life on the day Henry VIII’s warship sank – 19 July 1545.
1. Mary Rose Museum and Workshops
The Mary Rose Trust is building an exciting new museum which will be open in 2012. Construction will start in September 2009. The Ship Hall will be closed to the public for the duration of the building project. The Mary Rose Museum will remain open as usual. Discovery visits to the museum will be enhanced by:
- A new introductory film telling the story of the ship from 1509 to the present day.
- A large screen showing the hull under conservation in the ship hall. Volunteers will be on hand to explain and answer questions.
- Exciting new exhibits never on show in the museum before
- More opportunities for interaction with our costumed guides and expert volunteers at manned stations in the museum.
- New hands-on workshops for science and history in a new teaching space. Special Offer for 2009/10 - Book a second workshop for your class for half price.
- New resources to download including discussion questions; worksheets; teacher/pupil notes and a dockyard trail.
- A display showing plans for the new museum.
Learning Styles
Every effort is made to appeal to different learning styles:
Visual - There are about 1000 artefacts in the museum so worksheets are useful to focus pupils’ attention. There are many examples of everyday objects which would normally not have survived. Incredibly, wood, rope and textiles were preserved in the silt for 437 years.
Kinaesthetic - The interactive Bonaventure Gallery allows pupils to try on armour, listen to Tudor music, pull a longbow and smell Tudor smells! Please ensure pupils are in small supervised groups while doing these activities. Pupils have the opportunity to handle real and replica items from the Mary Rose at our artefact table.
Auditory - Everyone working in the museum enjoys answering pupils’ questions and helping with worksheets. Please encourage students to ask staff and volunteers for help. There are also recorded commentaries around the museum.
Worksheets - Older students can be challenged to question common preconceptions about the Tudors. The evidence from the Mary Rose has transformed our understanding of many aspects including navigation, nutrition and religious practice. Two different worksheets are available to download: 1. A hypothesis testing exercise using the collection as primary evidence (KS3 Britain 1500-1750) This can be used as an off-the-peg assessment. 2. An exercise looking at Change and Continuity in different areas e.g. clothing and technology. You may want to bring plain paper for sketching. Please photocopy the appropriate number of worksheets before your visit as we cannot provide them on the day.
Workshops - A wide variety of workshops are available to enhance your visit. Practical evidence-based sessions encourage essential historical skills and laboratory work puts scientific principles in context. Activities focus on Tudor history, science and archaeology and include object handling, dressing-up and experimental work in our laboratory. More details, including learning objectives, can be found on the workshops webpages.
Shop - The Museum Shop has plenty of pocket money items for sale and the staff are happy to help people with small amounts to spend. This is a useful experience in practical maths. Please help the shop staff by taking pupils in the shop in small supervised groups.
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