Museum Workshop

Sounds of the Dinosaurs

🔍 Discover and Explore

Step back in time and bring the prehistoric world to life in this interactive, sound-filled adventure! In Sounds of the Dinosaurs, pupils will explore real museum objects, investigate fascinating fossil clues, and use their curiosity to ask big questions about the age of the dinosaurs.

✏️ Take Part

Learners will have the opportunity to handle fossils of real dinosaurs. Through creative play and sensory learning, children will imagine and recreate a prehistoric forest by building a nest of herbivores and carnivores. We will finish with a lively, sound-based storytelling session where they will become part of the prehistoric landscape.  

ℹ️ About This Session

This workshop involves discussions around extinction and includes recreating noises that dinosaurs may have made. Please let us know when you are booking if you have any pupils that would be sensitive to these experiences, and we will do our best to make everyone feel comfortable!

Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Led by Museum staff - £40 for up to 15 pupils, £60 for up to 35. Free for some schools (see booking information).

Curriculum

Expressive Arts

  • Creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination.

Humanities

  • Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future.
  • Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions.

Languages, Literacy and Communication

  • Expressing ourselves through languages is key to communication.
  • Literature fires imagination and inspires creativity.

Science and Technology

  • Being curious and searching for answers is essential to understanding and predicting phenomena.
  • The world around us is full of living things which depend on each other for survival.
A photo of a group of children roaring like a dinosaur
National Museum Cardiff

Booking information

To make a booking and talk to someone about this session phone (029) 2057 3240 or email educationmail@museumwales.ac.uk