Museum Workshop

Object Handling in the Clore Discovery Centre

Free session! Choose a time slot when booking a visit.

🔍 Discover and Explore

Explore the collections in National Museum Cardiff in our handling gallery: the Clore Discovery Centre. Learners will be able to explore a wide range of objects at their own pace from a wide range of topics including real dinosaur fossils, creepy crawlies and gemstones. 

✏️ Take Part

Learners will have the unique opportunity to handle objects from our collection with one of our facilitators on hand to answer any questions they may have. 

ℹ️ About This Session

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!

Cost: Museum-led – Free of charge

Duration: 30 minutes

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.
  • Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action.

Language, Literacy and Communication

  • Expressing ourselves through languages is key to communication.

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.
The Clore Discovery Centre
Two children in the Clore Discovery Centre
Display cases in Clore Discovery Centre
A child using a magnifying glass
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