Cottonian Collection

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths through the Cottonian Collection, using this resource for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.

Dive in to the text to harness yourself with insider knowledge on the subject, focus in on the images to discover new details with your class, and then play and create using some of the suggested activities for inspiration.

Key Stages:: Key Stage 2,; Key Stage 3

Curriculum:: History

Topics:: STEAM,; STEM,; Cottonian Collection

You can download this PDF resource to use with your class.

Download now

School visits

SENsational workshops

Our SENsational workshops for students with special educational needs and disabilities, including those with profound and multiple disabilities and ASC, are open to visits from a range of educational settings.

Ancient Egypt

Can your students help our Curator of Archaeology explore a new box of Egyptian artefacts? Using enquiry and curation skills your class will create their own Egyptian display.

Prehistory: The Bronze Age at Whitehorse Hill

Witness your students become archaeologists, discovering the remarkable Bronze Age burial at Whitehorse Hill on Dartmoor. What can the uncovered artefacts tell us about people 4,000 years ago?

Loan Boxes

Explore: Plymouth Evacuees

Discover what life was like for children evacuated from Plymouth during the war. Hundreds of children were evacuated from Plymouth during World War II. Encounter these individuals and imagine their lives with this collection of photos and documents.

Play: Mummification

Bring the spectacle of mummification to your classroom with this mummy, canopic jars and set of ‘body parts’.

Explore: Captain Robert Scott

Discover the adventures of Plymouth's most famous polar explorer - Captain Robert Scott - through the photos and documents about his experiences.

Museum Gallery Archive

You can download this PDF resource to use with your class.