Shannen Lang with the new school programme brochure and a replica suitcase. Photo: Courtesy of The Peace Museum.
Peace Museum launches schools programme
Four new workshops are being launched by the Peace Museum in Bradford
The Peace Museum in Bradford has announced that from September it will launch a new primary schools programme.
Four new cross-curricular workshops have been created using the Museum’s unique collection of artefacts.
The Museum’s collection records the stories of countless people who have tried to bring an end to conflict, violence, war and inequality and to create social justice, peace and cohesion.
Shannen Lang, learning officer at the Museum, said: ‘We are really excited to offer these new workshops so that pupils can access our collections and the stories they can tell. The workshops have been tailored to the National Curriculum and explore Bradford’s history as a place of refuge, how we can care for our world peacefully and how pupils can be peaceful in their everyday lives.’
The workshops will use a replica suitcase, as a teaching tool, representing the one that belonged to Axel Landmann, a child refugee who came to England before the second world war as part of the Kindertransport programme that rescued children from Nazi persecution (see photograph).
Workshops can be taught in the city centre museum, which has free admission, or in schools as part of the Museum’s dedicated outreach offer.
To celebrate the launch of the new schools programme, teachers and education professionals have been invited to a special event on Thursday 6 July from 4.30pm – 6pm.
