Year 3 Have a Pharaoh Time At Truro Museum

Story shared by Christina Sukstiene
on November 21, 2022

Last Tuesday (8th November) saw Class 7 and 8 head off to Truro to visit Royal Cornwall Museum as part of their ‘Ancient Egypt’ topic.

Once we had (eventually) gotten the train from Hayle to Truro, we marched down to the museum.

When we arrived, we were able to have some free time to wander around the museum and find out lots of interesting facts about the different exhibits.

However, afterwards, it was then time to explore the ancient Egypt area…

One of the tour guides from the museum told us all about (and showed) their different Egyptian artefacts, a sarcophagus and a real mummy! We even got the chance to draw on some papyrus paper!

Finally, we got to watch (and some of us help) an Egyptian mummification (on a dummy). We pulled out the mummy’s brains, scooped out their intestines, but kept the heart safe inside. All of the organs were placed into canopic jars for safe keeping.

After our time at the museum had concluded, we walked back up to the train station and faced another train conundrum…

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