We are always looking for ways to tell new stories at the Mary Rose especially within our busy Learning Department, to ensure we continue providing award-winning educational provision to the thousands of pupils that visit every year. As part of this goal, we have developed two new workshops to offer to schools that explore two different aspects of the history of the Mary Rose.
The first workshop called ‘Decoding Diversity: Investigating the Crew of the Mary Rose’ asks pupils to become members of the museum team and investigate four members of the crew. Who were they? What jobs did they do? Where did they come from? The session explores they way in which historians and scientists put together different types of evidence to build up a picture of the past. It also utilises the amazing work done in connection with our ‘Many Faces’ exhibition and the accompanying Channel 4 documentary, introducing pupils to DNA and isotope science. We even give them a chance to exercise their artistic skills by creating a class picture of our ship’s dog Hatch, using his DNA results!
