Museums To You – Transport Week 2, 30th March

We hope you enjoyed Dinosaur Week last week. This week has been all about transport with trains, aircraft, cars, buses, ships and even a submarine!

Monday

Aircraft – Dot-to-Dot

We began with a Dot-to-Dot – Spitfire from the @RAFMuseum https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/ALD-London/Spitfire%20dot%20to%20dot.pdf

Ship – Game

Voyage to Van Diemen’s Land with this brilliant game. It takes a bit of time, choose the crew and load the supplies, lots of mini games a fabulous resource from the Australian National Maritime Museum @SeaMuseum_ http://voyage.anmm.gov.au/?_ga=2.225422490.1040671968.1585477686-1721107618.1585477686

Submarine – Virtual

On Monday we took a virtual trip to Australia to visit a Submarine fromt he Australian National Maritime Museum @SeaMuseum_ https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/anmm-submarine/iAF4k29AryMnIw

Tuesday

Aircraft – Colouring

For those who like to colour we can have a got at this Harrier from the RAF Museum @RAFMuseum

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/ALD-London/Harrier%20Outline.pdf

Aircraft – Word Search

Have a go at this Word Search and then create your own one for someone in your family to try! From RAF Museum @RAFMuseum https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/ALD-London/Aircraft%20word%20search.pdf

Car – game

A simple game where you use nature to inspire your transport choices to clear pollution from different environments from the Virtual Museum of Canada @VirtualMuseCan

Gear up for Nature

Wednesday –

Aircraft – Writing

These Story Starters give you lots of ideas. Why don’t you take turns to write a line each from the story. From the RAF Museum @RAFMuseum https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/ALD-London/Story%20starters.pdf

Ship – Making

This is a great template to make a pirate ship from Australian National Maritime Museum @SeaMuseum_ https://www.sea.museum/-/media/anmm/files/kids-make-and-do/pirate-ship.pdf?la=en

Buses – Virtual

For today’s virtual visit we are off to Hull and the Streetlife Museum of Transport they have some cool buses! @Hull_Museums https://www.hcandl.co.uk/museums-and-galleries/streetlife-museum/streetlife-museum

Thursday –

Trains/Buses Sing-a-long

For little ones how about Transit Tots sing-a-long time with New York Transit Museum @NYTransitMuseumhttps://www.nytransitmuseum.org/TransitTots/

Aircraft Dot-to-Dot

We have another tricky Dot-to-Dot of a Typhoon from the RAF Museum @RAFMuseum

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/ALD-London/Typhoon%20dot%20to%20dot%20(1).pdf

Train – virtual

If you really really love your trains you are going to love these virtual tours inside a whole host of trains! Get up close to the nitty gritty you can even look in the toilets! From the RailRoad Museum of Pennsylvania @RRmuseumpa

Virtual Tours

Friday –

Aircraft – Colouring

We are going to take things easy on Friday with a bit of colouring. How about this Mustang from the RAF Museum @RAFMuseum https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/ALD-London/Mustang%20Outline.pdf

Train – Puzzles

Time for a cup of tea and a puzzle from London Transport Museum this downloadable puzzle pack has a word search and crossword but you might need to cut of the answers so not cheating! Probably a bit tricky if you are not UK based but see how you get on! @LTMuseum https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/assets/ltm_images/whatson/UTT-crossword-wordsearch.pdf

Aircraft – Virtual

I have a special treat for you as it is Friday. Do you want to step into the cockpit of a Concorde? Well take a trip to the Museum of flight in Washington to find out what it is like. @museumofflight http://vr.museumofflight.org/concorde%20cockpit

Thanks for joining us for Transport Week! I hope you are ready to go above and beyond next week as we are stepping into Space! #MuseumsToYou

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