museum at home winter 2020
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The Museums Victoria team have pulled together their incredible recourses to bring Museum at Home back for our second round of restrictions. Although we can’t visit our buddies at the museums at the moment, the clever team at Museums Victoria has found a great way for us to continue our learning adventures, bringing all the experiences and experts to us in our homes. All three museums - Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Scienceworks - have activities and portals into their incredible spaces with their own unique twists.
The Mammas loved building air canons, flying paper planes, drawing owls and experimenting with the concepts of floating earlier this year. This time around, we have had a quick play on the Museum website and are keen to try making slime, setting up bird feeders, cooking with galaxies and making cards for our loved ones, just to name a few. The Mammas will be road testing a few in between our school lessons and on the weekends and can’t wait to share with you all.
You can also join their learning program over Term 3 where they share weekly curriculum-aligned education resources via Museum at Home Learning, were the museums education experts have developed a range of science, humanities and STEM activities for teachers and students.
There is so much to explore online, follow them on their social channels to see what goes on behind the scenes. Oh, and it is worth subscribing to their email updates too - click here and scroll to the bottom.
Melbourne Museum at Home - PLAY
Are you ready for hands-on Museum fun from the comfort of your home? Explore a range of family-friendly activities inspired by items in Museums Victoria's collections and exhibitions!
AND you can take a tour of the Melbourne Museum with The Listies with their Listies LOLtastic audio tour!? It is 100% fact-filled - we promise! You can even complete a Virtual Dinosaur Tour or try the online jigsaw puzzles of famous exhibition pieces!
Immigration Museum at Home
Continue on your museum adventure to the Immigration Museum. With plenty of fascinating personal stories of migration and human experience stories - these make great online learning opportunities for the kids and us grown-ups too. They are even collecting images of life during this pandemic, showcasing what Victoria looked liked during this time of social distancing and isolation.
Scienceworks at Home
Scienceworks has MORE fun happening too (of course!) with some great science stories and family activities to do. These are great for all ages, really hands on and perfect for ‘school’ brain breaks whilst we are at home learning.
Essentially folks, there is a WORLD of brilliantly curated resources at our fingertips. Plus, Q&As with experts, live streaming, virtual events, podcasts, science and history lessons, art classes and heaps more fun!
MORE awesome online resources:
The Fact Detectives (audio) - partnered with Kinderling Kids Radio
Museum at Home Learning - 10 week learning curriculum-aligned education program developed by the Museums Victoria education team to assist teachers and students from kinder to year 12 with at-home learning
We HIGHLY RECOMMEND STARTING your day with a dose of THE LISTIES on their Museum Tour - it is SO MUCH FUN
Museums At Home - SHOP
Keep little hands busy with museum puzzles, toys and activities. The Museums online shop is a great spot to buy a treat or gift online for our friends and family. They have a great range of goodies AND your Museum Shop purchase helps Museums Victoria preserve their collections, supports research activities and contributes to the development of new exhibitions and projects - click here
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