Age 7–11 For students at Key Stage 2
A unique collection...
The British Museum's collection spans over two million years of human history and culture, all under one roof. Studemts can engage and experience the unique collection through resources, sessions and gallery visits.
Resources
- Anglo-Saxons
- Anglo-Saxons: Sutton Hoo
- Archaeology
- Visiting the Sutton Hoo treasures
- Art guide: celebration
- Art guide: containers
- Art guide: death and the afterlife
- Art guide: gods and spirits
- Art guide: identity
- Art guide: objects in motion
- Art guide: sculpture
- Art guide: symbols
- Art guide: textiles
- Art guide: the natural world
- Aztec Empire
- The Aztec World
- Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
- Benin
- The culture of HIV and AIDS
- The Wealth of Africa
- China: Journey to the East
- Chinese art
- China loan boxes
- Egypt: early Egypt
- Egypt: life in ancient Egypt
- General guide to the Egyptian galleries
- Mummies: how were mummies made?
- Mummies: Egyptian mummies
- Mummies: the development of mummification
- Nebamun: what can you learn from an Egyptian tomb?
- Nebamun: literacy activities
- Nebamun: ancient Egyptian tomb paintings
- Ancient Nubia
- Painting an Egyptian tomb
- Egypt: reading a papyrus
- Egypt: symbols of the pharaoh
- Greece: competition
- Greece: everyday life
- Greece: explore an Athenian picture
- Greece: gods and godesses
- Greece: hoplites
- Greece: myths and legends
- Greece: the Nereid monument
- Greece: the Parthenon
- Greek pots
- Greek Women
- Greece: Olympic games
- Hajj: exhibition resources
- Hajj: classroom resources
- Local history: the British Museum in 18th century
- Local history: the British Museum in 19th century
- Local history: the British Museum in 20th century
- Mesopotamia
- Assyria
- Babylon
- Babylon: Myth and reality
- Sumer
- Celtic Design
- Roman Britain
- Rome: Emperors of Imperial Rome
- Rome: Imperial Rome
- Life in Roman Britain
- Roman Music
- Viking craftwork
- Vikings: gallery activities
Sessions
- Africa adorned
- Athens: a question for the people
- Around the world: make a podcast
- Celebrating Athens
- Celebrating China
- Change over time in ancient Britain
- Eating and drinking in Roman Britain
- English Touring Opera: In the belly of the horse
- Excavation in Egypt
- Greek temples: worshipping the gods
- Hajj: primary workshop
- How to find out about Greek life
- Islam: art and belief
- Looking at Egyptian life
- Looking at Egyptian mummies
- Looking at Greek myths
- Looking at the ancient Egyptian afterlife
- Looking at the people of Benin
- Meet the Aztecs: mission to Mexico
- Multimedia magic
- Museum detectives
- Painting for the afterlife
- Science and the stars
- Sutton Hoo headline
- Taught handling sessions for SEN students
- The Persian wars