Workshops for schools

Choose from a wide selection of interactive, curriculum-linked workshops taught by our facilitators either at the Museum or online.

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A British medical orderly treats a wounded German soldier, c1916

Secondary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

Trench medicine: Illnesses, injuries and their treatment (virtual)

Explore artefacts and sources on the causes and treatment of injuries and illnesses on the Western Front during the First World War, and assess the impact of these innovations.

Your Country Needs You! Propaganda and recruitment

Primary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

Your Country Needs You! Propaganda and recruitment

Explore how advertising and propaganda work, particularly focusing on recruitment campaigns of the First World War.

Part of a First World War propaganda poster showing a soldier and a munitions worker

Primary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

Your Country Needs You! Propaganda and recruitment (virtual)

Explore how advertising and propaganda work, particularly focusing on recruitment campaigns of the First World War.

Secondary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

Recruitment and conscription

Analyse recruitment posters from the Museum's collection and multimedia recreations of First World War parliamentary debates to explore the history of Army recruitment and conscription.

British Civil Wars: Technology and tactics

Secondary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

British Civil Wars: Pikemen, cavalrymen and musketeers

Using our handling collection, explore Civil War battle tactics, weaponry and equipment to consider the experience of warfare in the 17th century.

Secondary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

British Civil Wars: Pikemen, cavalrymen and musketeers (virtual)

Explore Civil War battle tactics, weaponry and equipment to consider the experience of warfare in the 17th century.

School students getting to grips with the handling collection

Secondary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

The Cold War: Mission reconnaissance

Find out about key events during the Cold War and discover Brixmis, the secret reconnaissance arm of the British Army in occupied Germany.

Primary

1 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2026 FREE

Robots to the rescue (Coding Mission)

Explore how robotic devices help the Army, then work in teams using block-based programming and our Dash robots to complete a series of coding missions.