Surrey Heath Museum

Knoll Road
Camberley
Surrey
GU15 3HD
England

Website

Our Website

www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/museum

E-mail

Museum Enquiries

museum@surreyheath.gov.uk

Telephone

01276 707284

Fax

01276 707177

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A small, lively Borough museum, based in the centre of Camberley. The Museum’s collections are particularly strong in 19th and 20th century domestic materials, 20th century costume, natural history and photographs. We have a large reserve collection, and displays on topics of local and of wider interest.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Wed-Sat 1100-1700

Collection details

Archaeology, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Natural Sciences, Coins and Medals, Archives, Social History

Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Face to face resources

Washday Talk and Object Handling Session

A schools session based around the hard work involved in laundry c 1880 - 1920. These explored include the volume and type of laundry, labour intensiveness and the complexity of the process. Available to schools within Surrey Heath or the immediate area. Session is about an hour. Includes photographs and objects. Offsite talks - up to 60 children. Charge applies - £16.50 - £20.00 depanding on location. per talk within Borough. Please ring for details. In ceratin circumstances transport required. Some limited participation.

How to obtain

Please ring Surrey Heath Museum on 01276 707284 for further edtails or e-mail museum@surreyheath.co.uk.

Playthings Past - Talk and Object Handling Session

http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/museum

Playthings Past is a workshop that looks at a delightful selection of early toys and games, including dolls, tin toys, and playground objects, and is used by many schools in the area. During Playthings Past, children investigate materials and compare old and new toys. Available to schools within Surrey Heath or the immediate area. Session is about an hour/ hour and a half. Includes photographs and objects, a materials sorting exercise and a sketching session. Offsite talks - up to 60 children. Charge applies - £16.50 - £20.00 depanding on location. per talk within Borough. Please ring for details. In certain circumstances transport required. Some limited participation.

How to obtain

Please ring Surrey Heath Museum on 01276 707284 for further edtails or e-mail museum@surreyheath.co.uk.

Schooldays - Talk and Object Handling Session

http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/museum

Schooldays session which includes a practical workshop using quills, copybooks and slates, and fascinating images of schools in the area in times gone by. This is very popular with children, who enjoy finding out about Victorian school activities, handling learning aids, and doing the writing exercises using real feather quills and ink-dip pens. Available to schools within Surrey Heath or the immediate area. Session is about an hour. Includes photographs and objects. Offsite talks - up to 60 children. Charge applies - £16.50 - £20.00 depanding on location. per talk within Borough. Please ring for details. In certain circumstances transport required. Some limited participation.

How to obtain

Please ring Surrey Heath Museum on 01276 707284 for further details or e-mail museum@surreyheath.co.uk.

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Various Object Handling Sessions, Talks and Workshops

http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/museum

Surrey Heath Museum offers services to schools in the Borough both on- and off-site. We are able to give introductory talks on the story of Surrey Heath; its early history, life on the heathland, the highwaymen and the army connection. We also offer object-handling sessions that fit into the National Curriculum. We can adapt the sessions to fit into Key Stages 1 to 3. Sketching of objects during sessions is also encouraged. Topics offered as object-handling include: Washday, Victorian and Edwardian Homes, Lighting, Life in the 1930s, Our Home Front, Playthings Past, Schooldays, The Use of Materials, Citizenship: What is a Museum?, Art Appeal (on-site only), How and Where We Lived, Your

How to obtain

Please ring Surrey Heath Museum on 01276 707284 for further details or e-mail museum@surreyheath.co.uk.

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