KCM offers an exciting range of adventurous, fun activities devised to foster teamwork and friendship. Guided tours, interactive workshops and discovery trails enable scouts and guides to explore our exhibitions in a fun and accessible way. All activities can be booked to take place outside regular opening hours. With three different visitor experiences to choose from there is something to suit every patrol. Please note that advance booking is essential for all activities.

Call us to pre-book your visit and to discuss how we can accommodate your tailor-made visit.

 066 712 7777
 education@kerrymuseum.ie

1. MEDIEVAL EXPERIENCE TOUR
Guided tour with activity sheets
Highlight: dressing up in medieval costume

Travel back in time and visit a medieval town complete with the sounds and smells! Our medieval experience is a reconstruction of the bustling market town of Tralee in the year 1450. Equipped with fun activity sheets pupils enter through the town gate and stroll down ‘Burgess Street’, Tralee’s main medieval thoroughfare. See how the butcher, shoemaker and merchant went about their business; discover how criminals were punished and find out why rubbish was thrown out of the windows into open sewers.

• Cost: €3.50 per child; accompanying adults free of charge
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Group size: up to 30 children

 Check out the Medieval Experience Gallery

2. BONE INVESTIGATORS WORKSHOP
Interactive dig workshop with guide at hand
Highlight: digging up a Viking skeleton

Bone Investigators is the latest interactive attraction in our Museum. Children get to dig up two Viking skeletons, a man and a woman, along with exciting replica grave goods. In this handson dig workshop pupils dress up in high-vis vests and, equipped with kneeling pads and brushes, discover why and how archaeologists excavate and what we can learn from their finds. The dig experience is based on the excavation of a spectacular Viking burial site at Cloghermore Cave, near Tralee.

• Cost: €3.50 per child; accompanying adults free of charge
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Group size: up to 30 children

 Check out Bone Investigators

3. PANGUR BÁN’S TRAIL
Interactive discovery trail with guide at hand
Highlight: learning how to play Viking chess

From Stone Age hunters to Polar explorer Tom Crean – delve into 7,000 years of Kerry’s fascinating past. Pangur Bán, a clever white cat who lived in medieval times, is our guiding spirit and his exciting trail will lead pupils through the Museum Gallery and Tom Crean Room. Fun activity sheets and plenty of interactive displays allow pupils to discover fascinating artefacts along the way.

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Group size: up to 30 pupils, larger groups can be split

 Check out Pangur Bán’s Trail