NERAM invites schools to loan a kit as part of our new ‘Museum in a Box Outreach Program’.
NERAM, Museum of Printing and Hopscotch Press present this program to creatively engage primary school students with their local museums without leaving the classroom environment. This program is designed to provide teachers and students with a ready made lesson linked to the NSW curriculum filled with unique museum artefacts and tools, worksheets and art making activities for students. See information below and book your museum in a box now for term 4!
About Museum of Printing at NERAM:
Museum of Printing houses a historically significant collection of printing machinery and equipment which comprise the FT Wimble & Co. Collection. The collection includes printing presses, a Linotype machine, guillotines, book binding equipment, wooden and metal type and a history of printing in Australia from 1850 to the early 1900s. The Museum of Printing is now the home of the Black Gully Printmakers, a community of artists and print enthusiasts. Click here for more information.
What’s in the box?
In this box you will find the following:
- A lesson plan for 1- 1.5 hours
- Museum of Printing Education Resource
- Activity Sheets
- Lego
- Lego base plates x24
- Rollers x12
- Acrylic paint
- Paper
Description of Activity:
Part 1: Investigating the history of printing. There are many fascinating pieces of printing machinery at NERAM’s Museum of Printing but what do they do? What did the printing process look like before the invention of computers? Hopscotch Press has created an education booklet which explains how these machines work along with the history of printing plus fun activities to do in the classroom.
Part 2: Art-Making. Students are encouraged to discover the original letterpress process featured in the Museum of Printing through lego printing. Using a base plate and lego tiles students can manipulate shapes for relief printing without carving. The moveable lego tiles closely resemble the movable type of letterpress while also allowing iterative design changes and problem-solving. Re-create some of the abstract artworks from the NERAM collection in your design, click here to view the works to recreate.
Extension/options: multi-layered printing in different colours, configurations, introduction to concept of registration.
See brief demonstration video below:
Duration of session: 1.5 hours
Dates: This program is available to loan for a period of up to 2 weeks per school during the school term. This program contains resources fit for one class of 24.
Venue: This is an outreach program able to be utilised in the classroom environment for schools in the Armidale region and surrounds with instructions and tools supplied by our arts educators at NERAM.
Cost: Member Schools free, Non-Member Schools $25 per program
BOOKING REQUEST
This program is ideal for primary school aged children, early stage 1, stage 1, stage 2 and stage 3.
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