Houses and Homes

Find out about houses and homes in the past and have a go at a simple house craft to take home

Toys and Games

Help us find our toys and games that have escaped from the museum and learn about toys in the past.

Medicine Through Time

Learn about medicine through time with our collection of handling objects

Experience Barnsley Museum trails

Have a go at our free self-led trails for KS1 and KS2 including toys, comparing the past and present, scavenger hunts, explorer trails and more!

Miners' Strike trail

Have a go at our self-led trail for KS2 pupils at Experience Barnsley all about the Miners' Strike and Women Against Pit Closures movement.

Sensory loans box

Hire our local history sensory loan box targeted at pupils with SEND.

Elsecar storytelling trail

Explore Elsecar Heritage Centre with your class using our storytelling trail. Your pupils will use Elsecar's rich industrial past to create their own stories, using our story bags as inspiration.

Coal mining

Bring your coal mining teaching to life with our topic box full of real and replica objects relating to Barnsley and beyond.

Anglo- Saxons

Explore the Anglo-Saxon period in your classroom with our loan box

Stone Age

Introduce your pupils to their Stone Age topic with our prehistoric loan box

Field to flour

Explore the journey of wheat to flour in this hands-on workshop

The Mill Mouse

Explore the story of flour from wheat to bread in this half day workshop, focussed on the story of 'The Mill Mouse'

Barnsley's Industries

Explore Barnsley's industries with our loan box, available to hire to support your classroom learning. Includes objects related to coal mining, glass making and textiles.

Toys

Explore toys in the past with our loan box, available to hire to support your classroom learning.

Vikings

Hire our loan box filled with real and replica objects and bring your Vikings topic to life.

WW2 Evacuees

Find out all about life as an evacuee during WW2 with this beautifully handmade loan box, focussing on childhood during the war.

WW2: Evacuees Online

Find out what it was like to be evacuated to Cannon Hall during WW2 in this live 45 minute Zoom session

Virtual Victorians

Bring your Victorians topic to life in the classroom with our live 45 minute online workshop!

Romans

Find out more about life in the Roman times.

Victorians

Explore life as a Butler or Housekeeper with our Victorian Servant loan box

Stone Age to Iron Age (Outreach)

Bring prehistory to life in your classroom as your pupils become archaeologists for the day.

Deep Down Underground (Outreach)

Pupils will make a local history study and explore coal mining in Barnsley in your classroom.

Stone Age to Iron Age

Bring prehistory to life as your class discover how to be archaeologists for the day.

Deep Down Underground

Pupils will explore coal mining in Barnsley using objects and maps from our inspiring archive and museum collections.

WW2

Pupils meet the Cook and Land Girl at Cannon Hall and become evacuees for the day in this immersive workshop.

Victorian Kitchen

Your pupils will transform into Victorian servants for the day! Come and join us!

Topics: Local history