Art museum field trip for Ancient Egypt

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  • April 16, 2014 at 1:13 pm
    Sue
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    Our local Cleveland Museum of Art has a collection of artifacts from Ancient Egypt (and museum admission is free!), so we are planning a field trip there within the next two weeks. This will include DD16 (she turns 16 on Easter Sunday, yay!), DD13, and myself. I can view some of this collection online before/after we go.

    I am looking for ideas on how to make the most of this trip as it pertains to Ancient Egyptian history, which we are just finishing studying. Would you simply have the girls observe and comment as they feel led (sort of like picture study), or are there other activities you have done at this age prior to/during/following a museum field trip?

    April 16, 2014 at 1:24 pm
    sheraz
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    Our museum has canopic jars that have never been opened with hieroglyphics that my oldest dd had fun translating for us. =) She loves studying those.

    We have several mummies and they have been x-rayed, so their stories about that are on the walls. You can see how they wrapped the linen strips and even see the toes of one mummy -it totally looks like resin. 😉 We made sure to discuss that porcess and some of the reasons they had refined the embalming process so much.

    We also have jewelry, small statues and misc. items along that line. There are interesting little stories about some of the myths on the display cards, so those were great conversation starters when my family went the first couple of times. 

    Mostly, though, we just made our own observations and talked about them a bit.

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