Virtual Sessions

Explore the Museum’s collections and stories straight from your classroom or home with our range of live interactive virtual sessions.

How To Book

Virtual Sessions

Our virtual programme is based on our most successful and popular education sessions.

Sessions

The Victorians

The sessions we currently offer are:
• Classroom Roleplay
• Victorian Object Viewing
• Victorian Toys and Games
• Victorian Mills

World War II

The sessions we currently offer are:
• Evacuee Classroom Roleplay
• World War II Object Viewing
• World War II Pastimes

The Museum can also arrange bespoke virtual sessions for classes.

£60 per hour session for a class of up to 35 pupils.
The costs of bespoke sessions will vary. Please contact the Education Officer to discuss your options in further detail.

To enquire about a school visit, please click on the button below;

School Visit Enquires

Natural and Local History

This cross-curricular day offers pupils the opportunity to get hands-on with the Museum’s object handling collection combined with a historical study of the 17th century founder of British natural history who came from Essex - John Ray.

The Victorians

Braintree District Museum is housed in a former Victorian School, providing the perfect setting for your Victorian
experience. The day is full of interactive and hands-on learning and can be run for KS1 or KS2 pupils.

World War II

This immersive day allows pupils to re-live the experience of a wartime evacuee, discovering the hardships and heroism of World War II with a focus on the local realities of the conflict.

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