Loan Box Activities Resource

Reading Museum has an inspirational collection of over 1000 loan boxes, ranging from Medieval Abbeys to Geomorphology, which your school can borrow to use in your classroom to support your delivery of the National Curriculum in an exciting and hands-on way.

The original and replica items in these boxes explore a variety of topics such as history, art, zoology and many others.

We have created a resource, below, to support you using our loan boxes, filled with activity ideas to help your students explore objects from the past.

EXPLORING OBJECTS FROM THE PAST: READING MUSEUM HANDLING COLLECTION