Monday, December 23, 2024

Loan scheme offers chance to get ‘hands on’ with history

Lincoln Museum is ‘unboxing history’ with a selection of loan kits available to take away and enjoy at home or school.

Loan kits covering different aspects of the county’s history are helping residents of all ages get ‘hands on’ with their heritage.

In a Roman loan kit from Lincoln Museum there are Roman coins, pots, mosaics, and brooches. Said Learning Officer Linda Verney: “Peculiarly, you might even find dice and, reading through the booklet, you’ll discover how the Romans used dice for a variety of games. It’s even thought they would swallow them to avoid being caught gambling.

“In another case you’ll find everything you need to reenact your own Tudor banquet – complete with mock boar’s head centrepiece.”

The loan kits have been created by the council’s Investigate Learning team to complement the work the team does with school groups and provide a valuable resource for schools to use in the classroom.

Linda added: “We’ve had care homes hire our 1950s kits, packed with objects their residents would remember from their youth, to help them reminisce. They’re particularly useful for dementia patients who can touch all the different objects and even smell some – like 50s soaps – to help them reconnect.

“A couple of years ago we even had someone hire a loan kit to add a wow factor to their family Christmas quiz!”

Loan kits cover a variety of topics, from fossils, the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, the medieval period, the Tudors,

As well as history, there are also loan kits that connect you with art, featuring replicas of pieces held in the Usher Gallery’s art collection, to help inspire your own art or form part of a temporary exhibition.

The kits contain a mixture of real artefacts and replicas that you can handle, and comes with an in-depth information booklet about the objects or artworks.

 

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