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Secondary and Further Education Taught Sessions

The Museum is an inspiring setting where students can learn from real objects. Choose from a range of in-person and online interactive sessions which encourage pupils to look closely at objects and ask perceptive questions.
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Booking is now open for Secondary & FE taught sessions, for any visits taking place after 12th May 2025. Thank you for your patience during our recruitment of a new Learning Officer.

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Sketchbook Introduction

Alongside hints and tips, artist sketchbooks and key exercises are shown, to inspire new directions and connections.

Image from the film Edge of the Knife in the Haida language

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Theory of Knowledge

This session uses key objects and their history to understand and unpack terms such as coloniality, epistemicide and cultural appropriation.

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Sketchbook Extended Workshop

This is an extended version of our popular Sketchbook Introduction that supports students in their sketching or photography and allows them to engage with handling objects.

Maasai visitors to Pitt Rivers Museum. Photo by John Cairns.

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General Museum Introduction

Learn how objects were acquired, displayed and interpreted in the past and contrast this to the new ways of working that are happening in the present.