A perfect way to complement a visit to our museum is to book one of our fantastic loans boxes.
We offer a range of inspirational boxes for schools and groups to borrow allowing pupils to handle real and replica artefacts. Suitable for inspiring learning in several subjects such as: reminiscence, art, creative writing, drama, music, storytelling and literacy work.
All our loans boxes are collected and returned from SeaCity Museum and are booked per half term. A courier service may be available for some schools in Hampshire. If this is of interest please discuss it with our team at the booking stage.
Our inspirational Museums in a Box bring subjects to life by allowing students to handle artefacts themselves and are Suitable for inspiring learning in a number of subjects such as: reminiscence, art, creative writing, drama, music, storytelling and literacy work.
Prices:
Southampton City Council schools (not academies) – £35
All other schools and groups – £40
Discounts available for three or more boxes. If you would like to book one of our boxes, call 023 8083 2810 or email museums.education@southampton.gov.uk.
Titanic
All three of our Titanic boxes are designed to give students a greater understanding of the ship and the people who lived and worked onboard. Each box contains a wonderful array of artefacts, replicas and activities.Contents can include Edwardian hot water bottles, ladies gloves, costume items and facsimile documents.
Prehistory
Transport your students back to 5000 BC, with this wonderful array of prehistoric artefacts and replicas to learn what life was like for early man.Contents can include Stone Age hand axes, replica Bronze Age axes and a Mesolithic blade.
History of Southampton
Help students discover what life was like in Southampton over the centuries, from the Stone Age to World War Two with this box of artifacts and activities.Contents may include a Palaeolithic hand axe, WW2 helmet and Roman pottery.
Medieval Life
Discover what life was like in England before the Tudors came to the throne. This box of artefacts will help students understand of life in the Medieval period.Objects can include a mortar fragment, a replica beer mug and a pipkin (cooking pot).
Romans
Learn about what life was like in Roman Britain with objects and artefacts, which range from kitchen wear to heating systems. Soon your students will be declaring ‘Veni, vidi, vici!’Contents include a tegula (roof tile), New Forest Beaker and fragments of Samianware pottery.
Anglo Saxons
Discover life in the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Hamwic with this fantastic array of artifacts, replicas and activities.Objects include clay loom weight, fragments of a bone comb and replica coins.
Tudors
With this brilliant array of artifacts and replicas, students can discover the incredible world of the Tudors.Two boxes are available and objects may include a replica wooden trencher (plate), ceramic floor tile, a crucifix figurine and oyster shells.
Victorians
Discover more about Victorian home and school in our two themed boxed exploring life during the reign of Queen Victoria.Two boxes are available (Victorian School and Victorian Home) and contents may include a school bell, jelly mould, replica finger stocks and blackboards.
First World War
Discover what life was like on the Home Front as well as on the front line trenches.Contents may include a Brodie helmet, costume items and a Princess Mary Tin.
Second World War
Explore Southampton’s wartime past with the mixture of replica and artefacts to help students learn what like was like in World War Two.Items include a fire service helmet, replica gas mask and a replica incendiary (fire) bomb.
Changes in Living History
Discover what life was like during the 1940s as the country rebuilt itself after World War Two.Items include Sunlight Soap, a small ironing board, a Bakelite record and 1940s Nylon stockings.
Mrs Thomsons Toy Box
Designed to fit in with KS1 Changes in Living Memory, this box help young students learn to compare and contrast toys from the past, with the ones we have now.Toys include a 1960s locomotive, antique building blocks and a clown toy.
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