Museums History
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Explore 16 trusted museums history resources selected for curious kids, with clear ages, access details, and parent context.
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Peterborough Museum Learning Resources
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery offers free online and downloadable resources spanning Roman coins and pottery, historic toys, Windrush history, geology and fossils, videos, and hands-on activities.
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Carlos Museum Family Programs
Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum family guide with free online activities, gallery guides, SmARTy Packs, and hands-on programs connected to world cultures and collections.
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Virtual School Programs
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis offers live virtual programmes for school groups, with standards-based STEM, arts, humanities, and history topics for grades K–8.
Intrepid Museum Education Resources
Intrepid Museum education resources combine free learning-library content, historic photographs, oral histories, videos, field trips, virtual tours, and programs about history, science, technology, and engineering.
The Durham Museum Virtual Field Trips
Free, live and prerecorded museum lessons bring Omaha history, trains, pioneer life, Native American life, architecture, and family history to classrooms and homeschool groups.
New York State Museums Online Education Portal
This New York State Museum portal brings together virtual field trips, Museum Moments, online exhibits, at-home activities, lessons, teacher guides, and digital collections.
Leeds City Museum Family Guide
Leeds City Museum’s official family guide introduces animal displays, archaeology, mini dig zones, costumes, music, hands-on interactives, reading areas, and family-friendly events.
National Museum of Australia Family Visits
The National Museum of Australia family page helps children and grown-ups plan a visit with family activities, galleries, stories, and hands-on ways to explore Australian history and culture.
Cincinnati Museum Center Virtual Field Trips
Free, on-demand virtual field trips use video walkthroughs, expert interviews, and immersive exhibit content across Maya history, dinosaurs, caves, space, and Cincinnati history.
GEM Children’s Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum’s children’s museum uses ancient Egyptian themes, hands-on learning, interactive games, technology, and family programmes to spark curiosity.
Getty If Objects Could Talk
Getty’s If Objects Could Talk is a family podcast in which art and artifacts from the Getty collection tell imaginative stories about their histories, materials, makers, and uses. Episodes include transcripts and related activities.
Cairns Museum Kids and Families
Cairns Museum’s family page combines free self-guided activities, interactive exhibits, children’s activity areas, holiday programs, at-home ideas, and an official video playlist.
House of European History Families
A free family visit resource with museum trails, the Daily Spy activity for ages 6–12, Discovery Spaces, and intergenerational history learning.
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