BAGSHAW Museum in Batley is taking Ancient Egypt out of the showrooms and into classrooms while major structural work is done.
The museum’s hugely popular and award-winning display – which helped towards its recent second Sandford Award for education – has been adapted so it can be taken to schools while the museum is closed.
Pupils at St Luke’s First School in Cleckheaton were among some of the first pupils to experience the display.
The children got the chance to handle Ancient Egyptian objects, make an Egyptian-style necklace and watched one of their classmates being partially mummified.
Clr Liz Smaje, Kirklees Cabinet’s member for leisure and neighbourhood services, said: “We didn’t want schoolchildren to miss out on Bagshaw’s excellent and thoroughly fun session on Ancient Egypt.
“So, if schools can't come to us while the museum is closed we will go to the schools,’’
The museum will re-open in September next year after a £620,000 development project which includes the creation of two new permanent exhibitions and a lift to the first floor.
The project received £419,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
