Learning at Peterborough Museum

Be a Palaeontologist as you handle and explore real fossils.

Visit Peterborough Infirmary as trainee nurses in 1911. Today we have a special visitor...

See how toys have changed over time. Explore everyday materials through enquiry and play.

Study a range of fossils and replica hominin skulls on a journey of enquiry. Meet Mary Anning as part of your day too!

Step back 2,000 years and experience the impact and 'Romanisation' and what happened locally first hand.

Find out about Tudor Peterborough on this dual-site visit with Peterborough Cathedral.

You've committed a Georgian crime... Local magistrate Thomas Alderson Cooke will decide your punishment!

Visit Peterborough Infirmary as a patient with a Victorian aliment in 1901. Meet the doctor ... Feeling better?

Study the Home Front during WWII and its impact on the locality as we take you back to the 'hardest night' of the Blitz.

Discover 500 years of local history down in the museum's cellar!

Be time detectives as you analyse objects and uncover clues from Peterborough's past.

Explore our wonderful collection to discover how families spent their leisure time in the past.

Support the learning in this British and social history theme in our original Victorian operating theatre.

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Discover 500 years of local history down in the museum's cellar!

Take a guided ghostly tour behind the scenes of this 'most haunted building in Peterborough. Inspire writing, film making... if you dare!

Or book a ghost tour for you and your colleagues!

We've linked our collection and galleries with some well known stories.

Only have time for a short visit? Why not take a bite out of our local history...

Guided tours are suitable and adaptable for all key stages, historical periods and topics.

Tours last approximately 45 minutes and can be matched to a museum-led activity as well.

We have a set of 4 rock boxes with ideas on how they can be used in the classroom.

£40 per week.

Discover more about Jurassic Peterborough at our Leedsichthys website.

All about our local Roman town Durobrivae. This loan box set is inclusive only to a visit for schools within Peterborough.

A fantastic resource to complement studies of The Great War.

Study the usefulness of this primary source through themes and related activities.

Why did public attitude towards food change?

How did women contribute to the war effort?

What does this source tell you about one POW's experience?

In which ways did people meet each other?

What was the role of the railway?

What was Stanley's 5 minutes of fame?

Why were animals used in The Great War?

Get up close to the visitors' books with a visit to Peterborough Archives Service and/or additional activities at Peterborough Museum.