Colchester's history is taking to the highway!
Colchester's history is taking to the highway, embarking on a new long and interesting journey into people's lives and communities! This is all due to Colchester museums securing £100,000 of external funding from the Designation Challenge Fund Phase 4. This fund will launch a project that will take collections out in to hard to reach audiences and community in a creative and innovative way.
Museum to Go is Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service's van based, community focused mobile museum.The Museum to go is free, friendly and fun! Especially for communities in Ipswich, Colchester, Maldon or Tendring areas, our van will bring your history to wherever you are! Discover, touch, smell, play, create, listen and look to find out about the people who lived here before us.
On board the museum will be objects that showcase the environment, life and people of Essex, telling their stories from the prehistoric to modern period. The museum will be supported by lots of activities and things to touch, see, smell, play, discover and question.
The museum will focus around the pod or discovery unit which will always be staffed with an enthusiastic and knowledgeable member of museum staff! Our discovery pods have four main themes: Life, Meals & Medicine, Rubbish, People, and a fifth, smaller theme will be reminiscence boxes for use with the elderly in care homes.
This will be supported by other activities and a second enthusiastic knowledgeable member of staff. These include a height chart, timeline game, dial-a-hat, dressing up, magnetic gallery, historic games (such as skittles) a wormery to explore layers of history, a skeleton interactive to explore how evidence survives and art activities. There will be a ‘dig deeper' corner where more in depth information will be available for those who want it and a laptop which will also provide other info as well as the chance to explore ‘Virtual Colchester' or take on the Romans in the game ‘Rome-Total War!' (Kindly donated by Creative Assembly) We hope to work with local groups to provide specific activities to meet their needs, whether this be art activities, more formal talks or more specific requirements. The museum is fully flexible and can be booked for a minimum of two hours up to a whole day and can visit at weekends and evenings.
To discuss your needs or to book:
Call the team on 01206 507846.