Education and learning
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5
The museum’s collections and spaces offer a range of opportunities across different subjects at key stage 3, 4 and 5.
We are always interested to discuss your ideas and see how we can help, from just providing access to our collections to working with you to develop a project. As well as linking to the history curriculum, collections can be used as inspiring subjects of study for exam classes in art or creative writing. The museum itself can form part of a travel and tourism project.
We take part in Takeover Day, a national event where young people get to take over museums. This is a wonderful opportunity to develop personal skills by taking responsibility for the museum and all aspects of work there, from planning the content of the day to marketing and publicity, creating activities and leading tours.
Please do get in touch to have a chat about how we can work together
- Email museum@eppingforestdc.gov.uk
- Call 01992 564994
The Boys: Holocaust Survivors in the Epping Forest District
Our special exhibition programme often creates opportunities for work with secondary schools. The Boys: Holocaust Survivors in the Epping Forest District held at the museum in 2021 is one such exhibition. We worked with local schools to create learning resources to explore the story of the young Holocaust survivors who came to stay in Loughton to start rebuilding their lives at the end of the Second World War. Links to the teaching resource packs can be found here.
Download teaching resources on The Boys Holocaust Survivors in the Epping Forest District
His name is Ben
Children’s author, Tom Palmer, has written a short story especially for the exhibition The Boys: Holocaust Survivors in the Epping Forest District about the life of Sir Ben Helfgott, one of the Loughton Boys.
For more information about Tom Palmer and his story based on
the Boys visit