Visit the People’s History Museum with your early years group and borrow one of our exciting new Explorer Bags. The bags contain a selection of fantastic resources to help your group explore the museum and engage with the collections.
Meet Little Bee, the bee who wants to be different. Join in the bee dance, search for flowers in the museum and follow Little Bee’s adventure to find out how he becomes the hero of Victorian Manchester.
Someone has stolen Mr Ordinary’s Thinking and Doing! What will he do without them? Join in the adventure as Mr Ordinary and his friends try to get them back.
Meet Matilda, a little girl who is given a magic rainbow bag. Help Matilda to solve clues to get to the end of the rainbow and find what she’s looking for…
A brand new, cross curricular Living History session for Key Stage 1 using our 1930s co-op shop. Pupils will meet our magical time travelling character and find out about life in the past.
Meet Anita Sharma at school in Manchester as she describes her summer holiday trip to Bombay with her parents who were born there. Follow her journey to adulthood as she explores her identity.
Meet Gabrielle and help with her life-changing decision to move from the Caribbean to Manchester in the 1950s.
Meet Pauly, a young girl growing up in Manchester during World War Two.
Meet James Bronterre O‘Brien, editor of Victorian newspaper the Poor Man’s Guardian. Accompany Bronterre on a march to Peterloo, interview child mill worker John Oats, and use drama and role play techniques to uncover the stories of the day.
A brand new session in which pupils meet William Cuffay, Chartist and son of a freed slave.
Meet Maggie McCallow, a Victorian match girl involved in the match factory strike of 1888 and find out how she campaigned for better rights for workers.
A brand new Living History session looking at life during World War One through the eyes of two brothers, Dougie and Arthur – one is a soldier, the other a conscientious objector.
This Living History session is based on the story of suffragette and local councillor Hannah Mitchell.
Explore the signs, symbols and colours in our unique banner collection. Investigate different printing materials and techniques then create your own printed pieces to take back to school in this half day workshop.
Find out about the history and symbolism of our unique collection of historic banners and work with an artist to create your own banner on a theme of your choice.
What do museums collect and why? Why do we place importance on certain objects? What would you put in your museum? Explore the museum collections with an artist and create a Museum of Me display.
Explore our unique collection of banners and learn about signs and symbols. Experiment with screen printing and mixed materials and create a finished piece to take back to school in this half day workshop.
This full day session looks at historical images of protest and objects from our collections as well as contemporary protest art. The session also explores issues, impact and media to help students design their own protest art and culminates in a march through the museum.
pARTicipate includes a range of artist led workshops informed by our unique collections. Take inspiration from the city around us.
Explore Manchester’s hidden history on a half-day guided walk looking at the buildings, streets and monuments that tell the story of the world’s first industrial city.
Campaign! Make an Impact is a national programme which uses historical campaigns to inspire young people into active citizenship. Funded through the DCMS/DCSF Strategic Commissioning Programme, it teaches campaign skills, enabling children and young people to run their own campaigns about issues that affect them today. The People’s History Museum is the North West Champion [...]