The Historic Sites Unit offers whole and half day education workshops in Tudor House Museum , Southampton Maritime Museum and the Museum of Archaeology . Workshops are directly linked to the National Curriculum History and Science Programmes of Study for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 as well as to Medieval Realms at Key Stage 3. Historic Sites Unit Education Officers provide a direct teaching service and the opportunity for children to work with primary sources.
Workshops use music, story and role play to bring history alive.
The science of materials and of forces and motion is experienced through handling artefacts. Children of all levels of ability, including those with special needs, can enjoy learning in our historic buildings. Venues Tudor House Museum and Garden Tudor House was built as a home for John Dawtrey and his wife Jane in 1495. Exhibitions at Tudor House Museum focus on local social history and on the Tudor and Victorian periods. There is a reconstruction of a Tudor garden full of scented herbs which would have been used in medicine, cooking and housekeeping.