ANGUSalive Annual Report 2019-2020

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Discovering Ancient Egypt Engagement Programme

Museums, Galleries & Archives

Montrose Museum created an exciting engagement programme to complement the Discovering Ancient Egypt exhibition - a touring exhibition from National Museums Scotland which was on display at Montrose Museum 8 June – 7 September 2019.

The engagement programme included a debate project with 1st year pupils from Montrose Academy on ‘Should British museums return ancient Egyptian objects to Egypt?’

We also ran a host of family engagement sessions including ‘Pick up a Piece of the Past’ drop-in object handling sessions as well as children’s workshops ‘Craft Like An Egyptian’, ‘Write Like An Egyptian’, and ‘Dig and Discover’ family activities.

There were also weekly ‘quiet hours’ for visitors who needed a relaxed museum visit.

The project engaged with 118 primary school children, 14 secondary school children and 26 teaching and support staff. Family activities attracted 133 participants over 10 different activities, with 33 participants taking part in two adult activity sessions. At our Quiet Hour sessions we had 27 visitors over 8 different sessions.

This project enabled the team to reach out to new audiences. When various classes from five different schools visited, we identified that 70 pupils had never previously been to Montrose Museum.

Getting hands on with objects is impossible to recreate in the classroom. Information from museum staff was fantastic.

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Thank you for such an engaging and professional trip!

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We attracted a new school to Montrose Museum – Mackie Academy.

Pupils were interested and engaged – asking questions. Some of these pupils are normally very shy.

Teacher feedback

Really engaging trip and the children got to share and learn new knowledge.

Teacher feedback

Thanks for Quiet Hour – it makes a big difference.

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