School Programming lasts for two hours and includes a tour, gallery trail and workshop(s). Teachers can tailor this to suit the ages and abilities of the children.

Visitors to the Exhibition (30 mins): 

Education staff will talk groups through these iconic objects from the British Museum. They will explain the importance of the Rosetta Stone in deciphering hieroglyphs and how it opened up a new world of understanding the life and times of ancient Egypt.

The exhibition will provide a background to the nine British Museum objects on display:

I.          Limestone lintel of Rameses III 

II.         Fragment of the stela of Horiraa 

III.       Sycamore fig wood stela

IV.       Wooden figure of a couple

V.         Limestone block of the official Sathathor 

VI.        Limestone ancestor bust of Muteminet 

VII.      The Greenfield Papyrus Book of the Dead of Nestanebetisheru, frame 28

VIII.     Limestone ostracon with a sketch of a red bull in red pigment

IX.       Wooden drawing board

If you would like to find out what a stela and an ostracon are or to know more about ancient Egyptian gods, goddesses and beliefs. Or, about the importance of the Nile to Egyptian life this exhibition will delight and inform!

Galleries Trail (20mins): 

Can you crack the code? The trail around the Museum’s galleries will point out Lisburn’s connection with Howard Carter who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun as well as other Egyptian related items from Lisburn Museum’s collections. Children are challenged to find a hidden message, record their findings in their very own code book and- if they crack the code- they will receive a ‘I cracked the Code’ stamp.

Egyptian Themed Workshops (1 hour) 

Activities are designed to provide context to aspects of ancient Egyptian life using arts, crafts and hands-on activities to get a sense of how Egyptians recorded their world. Workshops help us to understand how important cracking the hieroglyphic code was in raising our understanding of the ancient Egyptians. We are still learning! How do we know pharaohs preferred white clothes to coloured ones? What plants and minerals formed the colours used tomb paintings? All workshops will include an explanation of links to ancient Egypt. Choose up to two from a selection of twenty workshops: activities are colour coded in terms of difficulty but depend on the interest and abilities of the children: