Project: Museum in a Box 2021
Recycle Archaeology launched the Museum in a Box project in September 2022.
Recycled Handling Boxes were made for local school collections in partnership with Kingston University, Kingston Museum, St. Marys School Long Ditton and St. John’s Primary School and Nursery Kingston Upon Thames.
September - December 2021
Learning through recycling!
Kingston University students got stuck into the Recycle Archaeology stores and developed a series of small handling collections out of our rescued objects. The university students were able to gain hands on skills on object handling, conservation and museum education activity development. But don’t just take it from us, here is what our students said:
“I absolutely loved working with Recycle Archaeology and the de-selected Archaeological finds. It is such an amazing tool for supplying local schools and communities with first-hand experiences with artefacts that they otherwise would have to see behind glass at a museum.”
On this page you can find our amazing recycled handling collections:
Animal bone and identification of butchery marks
Medicine bottles and local industry
Clay pipes and the social history of British tobacco use
Chinese porcelain imported to Britain
British 17th and 18th century ceramics
Egyptian pottery and its social & ceremonial uses
Mud larking and coin identification.
2. Medicine bottles and local industry
Animal bone and identification of butchery marks
3. Clay pipes and the social history of British tobacco use
4. Chinese porcelain imported to Britain
6. Egyptian pottery and its social & ceremonial uses
5. British 17th and 18th century ceramics
7. Mudlarking and coin identification
What did our primary school partners think?
Thank you so much to St. Marys School Long Ditton and St. John’s Primary School and Nursery Kingston Upon Thames for their support on this project.
Year 3: Animal Bones
Year 4: Coins & Egyptian Pottery
Year 6: Chinese Porcelain & English Ceramics
