IOE students work with primary school pupils to design and create their own museum

The Year 5 pupils cut the ribbon to open the museum to visitors on 25 June and explained their interest in particular objects at the Grant Museum of Zoology and the Petrie Museum of Egyptology. 

The pupils worked with the Museums and Galleries in Education MA students and visited UCL’s museums, including the Grant Museum, the Petrie Museum, the Art Museum and the Slade School of Art, as well as the IOE’s gallery in 20 Bedford Way as part of their work.

Inspired by the artefacts the pupils saw in UCL’s museums, the George Mitchell Museum of Objects displayed papier-mâché eggs, a selection of painted replica clay shabtis and hieroglyphic tablets, four portraits of Flinders Petrie on canvas, a painted paper tapestry, more than thirty intaglio prints of Ancient Egyptian inspiration, some stop motion films and photographs of their favourite specimens from the Grant Museum.

This collaboration was part of a pilot UCL Culture project entitled ‘Creating Aspirations’. 

Links

• Museums and Galleries in Education MA
• Department of Culture, Communication and Media
• UCL Culture
• George Mitchell School