Today, as part of our History Topic ‘The Kingdom of Benin’, Year 6 visited the British Museum. We have been exploring the big question ‘Who do the Benin Bronzes really belong to?’ so we decided to go to see them for ourselves. The British Museum houses the largest collection of artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin in the world. The collection includes the famous Benin Bronzes as well as sculptures and jewellery made of ivory, terracotta and coral.
Unfortunately, when we arrived at the British Museum, we found to our disappointment that the Africa Gallery was closed! We had been so looking forward to actually seeing the artefacts after seeing so many photographs and learning so much about them but we made the best of our trip by going to look at the Greek and Roman artefacts instead which reminded us of previous History topic and we found an interesting exhibition about the History of money. We also did some sketching as inspiration for our next piece of Art work.
Thank you so much to the parents who volunteered to come with us- We really appreciate your support.
The Africa gallery is re-opening on the 20th March so, please try to visit the Benin Bronzes one weekend or holiday, Year 6. If you take photos, you can send them to me and we can share them on the website.
It was so fun looking at different things. My personal favourite was the coin presser.
It was so fun.
Sadly the thingy was closed but it was still fun!
Look at all the artifacts in the pictures. The cowrie shells to the greek philosophers
It was really enjoyable looking at the Greek and Roman objects!
I LOVED this trip! It was quite sad when we were told that the Africa gallery was closed. It was still very fun and interesting!
I loved it,it was so fun!
I really liked seeing all of these Greek artefacts. I also loved sketching.
Even though we couldn’t see the Benin bronzes it was so mesmerising to see the ancient eqypt and greek empire and its amazing artefacts.
It felt so good.
It was sad that the African part was closed but we still had fun looking at other stuff.
It was so fun!
it was very fun even though we did not see the bronzes.
it was fun i enjoyed it
I loved looking at beautiful artworks from around the globe!!!!!
I really enjoyed going to the British Museum even though we couldn’t go to the Africa gallery.
Looks like u had fun there! Sadly I was absent
it was really fun but sadly we couldnt go in the Africa part.
We enjoyed the trip to the British museum.Thank you Miss Siswick and thank you miss Vieira .Even though the Benin exibition was closed we still enjoyed looking at some items from Ancient Greece .
The trip to the British Museum was so fun sadly we didn’t get to see the real Benin Bronzes and the real Bronze plaques but at least we visited some places such as the Greeks and coins from a long time ago and we even saw cowrie shells.
It was amazing , even though we didn`t get to see the bronzes . Still seeing the greeks after our topic in year 5 was fun.