Museum Collections
bringing a topic to life
Key Messages
All educational resources are linked to the Northern Ireland Curriculum.
Sessions and resources are categorised by key stage and by theme.
The museum sites themselves are useful resources.
Topics can be brought to life by taking abstract concepts and making them real.
History, Art and Natural Sciences are the main subject areas, but resources are cross-curricular.
Nigel’s Top Tips
Explore the NMNI website and familiarise yourself with what is available across our different sites.
If you are a rural school or facing other potential difficulties around a museum visit, consider our Museum on The Move programme.
To Recap
Look at your scheme of work and identify one topic that is likely to lend itself to being supported by either a visit to the museum or interaction with museum collections.
Identify one topic from your scheme of work that your class has found difficult to visualise which could be brought to life either through physical objects or in-person interpretation.