Tour at a glance
Level: 3rd to 6th class
Group size: 32
Location: Curator's Choice, Out of Storage, Irish Silver, The Way We Wore Exhibition
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Booking: Please contact bookings@museum.ie to book this session
On Site Guided Tour Bundle: Continuity & Change over the Centuries.
This new tour bundle offer is specially designed for larger classes. On this interactive tour, students explore how fashions in clothing and food have developed over time, revealing the fascinating insights that objects can teach us about everyday life and culture in 18th and 19th century Irish society.
This 45 minute whole class tour can be achieved by splitting your class into two groups and each group having a combined shorter version of the ‘Taste of the Past’ tour and ‘The Way We Wore: Representations of Social Change through Clothing’ tour simultaneously.
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Curriculum links
SESE History
Change and Continuity
Clothing, food and farming, homes and houses
Life, Society, Work and Culture in the Past
Life in mediaeval towns and countryside in Ireland and Europe/Life in the 18th century/Life in the 19th century/Language and culture in late 19th and early 20th century Ireland
Working as a Historian
Time and chronology/Change and Continuity/Using evidence/empathy/synthesis and communication
Local studies
Homes/Feasts and festivals in the past
Other curriculum links
- Visual Art (Clothing, Construction, Symbols, Design)
Learning outcomes
- Developing an understanding of continuity and change over time through everyday artefacts relating to clothing and food & drink
- Students will uncover how clothing and fashion accessories convey information about the men, women and children who wore them, and about the society in which they lived.
- Understanding of dining etiquette and practices in the past
- Discovering how clothing and food and drink were seen as a sign of social status,
- Learn about how clothing and food & drink were used to show political affiliation