MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2024

Duration 2 weeks Two 3rd and 4th class primary school classes gathered information from parents and grandparents about their childhoods, including celebratory holidays and traditions for a curriculum history module, and engaged with the museum to explore the subject. As a group they also watched the RTE Today Show with Dáithí and Maura for the… Continue reading MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2024

MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2023

History of Toys and Play. The Museum of Childhood Ireland worked with Dublin Primary school students on a curriculum history strand: Learning from the past, through a programme of exploration of toys that children played with from the 1900s to the 1980s. We brought our ‘Museum in a Suitcase’ to the school for children to… Continue reading MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2023