English Literature
Electrical Machine
Key Stage: Any
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Please contact the Education Officer to discuss facilitated visits tailored to meet the needs of your students.
WHAT THE MUSEUM HAS TO OFFER
The museum has a wide range of scientific instruments and models, and a fascinating collection of historical books and archive material in the library, all of which can provide a rich source of stimulus material for creative writing and seminar sessions based at the museum.
In addition there are objects in the museum which relate to the historical background of fictional works such as the development of electricity and attitudes towards natural philosophy coloured by Romanticism in relation to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and a range of objects that illustrate themes in relation to Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel, Gulliver’s Travels.
Other objects of interest include the museum’s fabulous collection of sundials and astrolabes. The latter was a device that interested Chaucer and is mentioned in The Canterbury Tales.
