Melbourne Museum and National Art Gallery of Victoria Excursion

7 Chisholm's Melbourne Museum and National Art Gallery of Victoria Excursion

On the 25th of July, Chisholm went to the city of Melbourne to explore ancient civilizations at a deeper level. They were the last house to get their turn to travel back in time and see how archeology works and look at artefact thousands of years old.

 

We first walked to the Melbourne museum in Carlton. We had a lesson in a small room where we were able to understand the archeology of the Little Lonsdale St diggings; we categorized old pieces of china, double boilers, animal bones and small fragments of ceramics, and learned about living structures. We then went to three exhibits; 600,000,000 years, Dinosaurs and Ancient World. These exhibits focused on the ancient world and what we were generally working on in Social World.

 

 

Later, we walked from the museum to the National Gallery of Victoria where we spent a short time in the ancient artefacts section and filled out a sheet about ancient arts and craft.

These old, beautiful artefacts took the interests of many in Chisholm. We found dates, new facts and explored the lives of those way before us. Overall this was a wonderful experience and it expanded my knowledge of ancient civilizations beyond what it would have in an everyday classroom.

 

By Parker Malpeli, 7c 1​