Reading PET part 2 recommended museums in the area

Decide which museum would be the most suitable for the following people.



Jake and Maureen have different

interests but want to go somewhere they will both enjoy. Jake loves anything

to do with the sea, while Maureen’s interested in social history and the

lives of women.

• F. Fishing Centre

  Study the routes used by fishermen over the last two hundred years and see how their ocean-going boats worked. A new exhibition explores the position of wives and mothers in the old fishing towns, giving information about their occupations, and their attitudes to work and home.

• E. Museum of Peace

  Situated in beautiful countryside, this is the only museum of its kind in the country. It has a growing collection of art and objects connected with peace history, non-violence and the ending of war. It also has material which can be used after the visit back in the classroom.

Melanie is a history teacher. She wants

to take her class to a museum where they will be allowed to touch things and

have activities to do during their visit.

• C. Hillcrest Museum

  Enjoy an experience of digging up the past. Handle pieces of ancient pots, tools and other objects from many countries. Learn to date them and see what they tell us about how people lived then. Also try out computer programs which help plan the digging-up of sites. School groups should book in advance.

• A. Red House

  Travel back to the time of the novelist Charlotte Bronte and find out about her friends and local connections. Discover the comforts and discomforts of the 1830s country home where Charlotte sometimes stayed as a guest of Joshua Taylor's family and got ideas for her novel Shirley.

Roger is keen to find out about different forms of transport in towns over the last hundred years. He would like to attend a talk while he is at the museum.

• G. Viking Centre

  Come and experience what life was like 1,200 years ago in this Viking town, rebuilt at the mouth of the river. Our introductory talk will inform you about the close relationship the Vikings had with the sea – they were excellent fishermen, sailors and boat-builders. There are also tools, clothes and everyday items to look at.

• H. Horsepower

  Museum

  This museum reminds us just how important horses were to life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has a permanent exhibition of old trams and buses, which used to be pulled through the streets by horses. The staff here are very knowledgeable and give daily lectures on this fascinating collection.

Kazuko studies English literature and thinks that seeing where writers lived will help her understand their books better. She finds it useful to look at pictures which are connected with the books.

• C. Hillcrest Museum

  Enjoy an experience of digging up the past. Handle pieces of ancient pots, tools and other objects from many countries. Learn to date them and see what they tell us about how people lived then. Also try out computer programs which help plan the digging-up of sites. School groups should book in advance.

• D. Shandy Hall

  Here in the 1760s, Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy. His fifteenth-century house is now surrounded by a large garden full of beautiful and unusual plants. Inside there is an important collection of Sterne’s novels plus the original drawings which were included in his works.

Nick is more interested in learning

about the countryside than learning about people from the past. He needs

information for some schoolwork he is doing about what happens to rivers and

hills over time.

• B. Castle Museum

  The castle was built looking down on the valley of the River Dean. It is now a museum, where you can learn how the valley has changed over millions of years. There is a collection of interesting rocks and fossils found in the area, and pictures showing how the valley probably looked in prehistoric times.

• A. Red House

  Travel back to the time of the novelist Charlotte Bronte and find out about her friends and local connections. Discover the comforts and discomforts of the 1830s country home where Charlotte sometimes stayed as a guest of Joshua Taylor's family and got ideas for her novel Shirley.