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Continuing professional development for teachers

Do you want to enhance your own learning and make the most of your class visit? Our varied continuing professional development (CPD) programme may be just what you need!

The programme offers opportunities for you and your pupils to get the most out of our exhibits and resources. Contact one of our Learning and Programmes team to talk about tailor-made programmes for you and your colleagues.

Get to know our collections and plan ahead for your class visit by booking one of our CPD events. Alternatively, contact us to arrange a pre-visit by telephone on 0131 247 4041 or email schools@nms.ac.uk

Christmas 'Tweats' with RSPB

Fri 9 Dec, 2 – 5pm

Join us for mince pies and wine, and find out how to get your school grounds ready for Christmas with your class.

Lots of ideas for your pupils to do inside and out in that last week of term: listen and learn with our singing bird’s Christmas Choir, start to prepare the perfect Christmas Dinner for your playground wildlife, and take away your very own 'Christmas Stocking' full of even more ideas and activities for you and your pupils.

Fascinating Mummies: Teachers' Private View

Fri 2 March 2012

Mummies reveal how people lived and died in ancient Egypt.

This unmissable exhibition explores the complex rituals surrounding death and the afterlife 2000 years ago.

Come along to our teachers’ private view; have a guided tour of the exhibition and chat to staff about our Egypt programme and resources.

You can find out more about the Fascinating Mummies exhibition here. 

Refreshments provided.

Past events

Over the past years, we have offered the following CPD events:

  • Revealed - the new National Museum of Scotland
  • Preview - Fortunes of War, National Museum of Flight
  • Preview - Fantastic Flight, National Museum of Flight
  • Preview - Scotland: A Changing Nation, National Museum of Scotland
    Preview - Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, National Museum of Rural Life
  • Discover Early Scotland gallery, National Museum of Scotland
  • Science Showcase at National Museum of Flight
  • Sustainable Schools Footprint Challenge, National Museum of Rural Life.

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Robin in the Adventure Planet gallery

Robin in the Adventure Planet gallery.

Coffins of Amenhotep

Coffins of Amenhotep in the Fascinating Mummies exhibition.

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