Learning and Outreach

We have several learning activities at the Museum aimed at schools, children and adults. We also have loan boxes and specialist volunteers which work on local outreach. Please select from below:

Toys from the past collection

A Toy Box resource is now available
Our box is available to either to borrow for use in school or as part of an activity session in the museum (where there is an additional display of toys).

The box is intended to supplement the KS1/2 curriculum by allowing children to handle a selection of popular toys from the 20th century and giving them the opportunity to explore similarities with and differences from their own favourite toys.

Activities include
An opportunity for pupils:

to handle the toys and discuss how they are made
to try out the mechanical toys exploring how they work
to experience the puzzles that intrigued children before the electronic age
to discuss the toys on display in the museum

Included in the box are dolls, jigsaws, wooden toys, mechanical toys (such as the jumping jack), spinning tops, and simple puzzles.

Schools

Click here for more information about school group visits, access to our loans box and the 550th Anniversary Battle of Barnet Learning Project.

Holiday Activities

Click here for more information about school holiday activities for young historians.

Reminiscence Box

Click here for more information about our 1950s 'Reminiscence' loans box, often used in care homes and dementia groups.

Quizzes

We have a range of free quizzes for children and adults. Additionally younger children can also look out for the colourful Barnet Museum mice, hiding around the Museum!

Project work

We have a large archive of photographs and documents, as well as our permanent displays, that can help pupils with project work. If you would like your pupils to use the museum to help research a project please contact us in advance, so that we can tell you what we have that will be useful and be ready to help the students when they come in.