Key Stages 3-5: Virtual Visits

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Make a connection: book this interactive workshop and your students can experience an encounter with our Cast Gallery from the comfort of their own seats in your classroom, led by our Education and Outreach Coordinator live from the Museum itself.

 

Age: 11-18 (KS3-5)

Curriculum links: Classical Civilisations, Ancient History, History

Maximum group size: none

Session time: 60 minutes

Session type: museum-led via online platform

Suggested time: 9.30-11am, to get the best experience of the Cast Gallery

No charges apply

 

Virtual Visits

An online museum visit, facilitated by our Education and Outreach Coordinator direct from our Cast Gallery, is a great way to support the KS3-5 curriculum and enrich your students learning without needing to travel to Cambridge. We recommend that sessions are one hour long. Sessions work best when the Education and Outreach Coordinator can see and hear the children in your classroom, in order to create a true virtual classroom experience. A 60 minute tour of the Museum takes in classical sculpture from the earliest experiments in sculpting the human form at the beginning of the Archaic period, through the Classical period, into the Hellenistic period and finishing with the Roman period. Tours can be tailored to the age range and prior knowledge of the group, supporting critical thinking and visual analysis skills through object-based learning commensurate with the Key Stage of your students and the requirements of their studies. Our tours are interactive, so your students will be active participants in their own learning. There is no maximum group size for a virtual visit, but we ask that you report the number of student participants accurately for our records. Streaming is available across a range of platforms. 

Statues in the Cast Gallery

Our Cast Gallery houses plaster replicas of many of the masterpieces of Greek and Roman sculpture – including those studied in the GCSE and A-level Classical Civilisation specifications. Our tours aim not only to empower your students to think critically and confidently about ancient sculpture, but also to contextualise those statues within a bigger story about the development of classical sculpture and the Greek and Roman cultures which produced them.

You can also ask us to align the session with particular topics on the GCSE and A-level curricula, e.g. women or Greek religion.

 

Key Stage 4: OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation

  • Temple of Zeus at Olympia: West pediment, East pediment, and three metopes
  • Parthenon: frieze, pediment statuary, metopes, and reconstruction of the Athena Parthenos
  • Prima Porta Augustus
  • Temple of Athena Nike, south frieze with Greeks fighting Persians
  • Trajan's column, scene with beheaded enemies

 

Key Stage 5: OCR A-level Classical Civilisation

A tour in the Cast Gallery is especially useful in supporting and enriching Component Group 2: Culture and the Arts.

  • Prima Porta Augustus
  • Temple of Athena Nike, south frieze with Greeks fighting Persians
  • Temple of Apollo at Bassae, frieze of Greeks fighting amazons and centaurs
  • Kleobis
  • Peplos Kore
  • Delphi Charioteer
  • Artemision God
  • Myron's Diskobolos
  • Polykleitos' Doryphoros
  • Eirene and Ploutos
  • Hermes and Dionysos from Olympia
  • Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos
  • Lysippos' Apoxyomenos
  • Temple of Artemis at Corcyra, pediment with Medusa
  • Temple of Aphaia at Aegina, pediment
  • Temple of Zeus at Olympia, east and west pediments, and three metopes including the Cretan bull and the Garden of the Hesperides
  • Parthenon, pediment sculpture, centaur metopes, and frieze
  • Temple C at Selinus, two metopes incuding Herakles and the Kerkopes
  • Siphnian Treasure, frieze
  • Temple of Apollo at Bassae, frieze
  • Erechtheion caryatids

 

How to Book

To make a booking, please use our online booking request form. Please note: we ask that school trips are booked at least a week in advance of your visit.

Our Education and Outreach Coordinator will be in touch to answer any questions or discuss your options in advance of your visit.

 

Our learning service is free

If you would like to make a donation to the Museum, we promise to spend your money on supporting and expanding our education programme and collections care. Any donation, however, is at your own discretion.

 

Highlights Pack

We have also produced a Highlights Pack designed to introduce A-level students to the collection and support their studies. The Pack contains 15 loose-leaf essays written by research specialists in the Faculty and can be purchased for £5 from the Museum.

 

Get in Touch

Tel. 01223 767044
Email  museum@classics.cam.ac.uk