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Thackray Museum

Walk through the streets of Leeds in 1842 to experience how people really lived and died: the squalor, the sounds, the smells. Choose a character in the street scenes and follow their life and ailments, search for remedies for their illnesses and find out if they lived or died. Experience surgery in the 1840s in a unique audio-visual presentation, and see how this has all evolved into modern medicine. In the brand new Life Zone gallery students can learn how their bodies work and how to stay healthy.

The Museum was designed to support the “Medicine Through Time” module in GCSE History and is also an excellent resource for the study of Victorian Britain in Key Stage 1 and 2 History and “Me and My Body” in Science. In addition to the galleries the Museum has three led sessions: Florence Nightingale (KS1), Victorians Alive (KS2) and Germs and Microbes (KS3), as well as resource packs covering History, Science, Maths, Numeracy, Literacy, and Health and Social Care.

Free familiarisation visits are available please call for details.

Florence Nightingale Led Session (KS1)
Victorians Alive Led Session (KS2)
Germs and Microbes Led Session (KS3)

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