Educational Links

At Woburn Heritage Centre Museum, we endeavour to play a useful role in the wider community. A thriving and ongoing relationship has been established between the museum and several local Lower Schools, to whom the museum has become a valuable educational amenity and learning resource.

Groups of children are regularly welcomed into the museum for “hands on” sessions on a variety of themes. Always popular are sessions based around the museum’s replica “Victorian /Edwardian Kitchen”, complete with cooking range, laundry area, including a mangle, dolly and wash board, and many original domestic artefacts.

Museum volunteers are invited into schools, to talk to groups of children on the topics they are covering in class, taking with them fascinating and diverse objects from the museum, which help to bring the subjects to life.

The museum also boasts three well stocked “Resource Boxes”, which may be borrowed by schools to complement and enhance their lessons. In addition to the original two boxes on the themes of “The Victorian/Edwardian Kitchen” and “Toys “, the museum also has a new resource available on the subject of  “World War Two”. This is divided into two parts - a resource box filled with original artefacts and memorabilia from the wartime, and an “Evacuee’s Suitcase”, which has really captured the imaginations of the children who have used it in their lessons.

Museum volunteers are members of the Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) Educational Forum, regularly attending training and advisory sessions, thereby ensuring that the educational side of Woburn Heritage Centre Museum is up to date and relevant.