Some of us from Primary 4/5 went to the Kelvingrove Museum for the day to learn about Scotland’s history, animals and some famous people. Five out of twelve of us had never been before.

Here are some of the highlights 🙂

Things we enjoyed:

• taking photos of things we loved in the exhibitions
• looking at the stuffed animals
• the baby polar bears!
• learning about Scottish animals and history
• the giant Irish deer skeleton
• the whole Egyptian section
• the organ recital at lunchtime

Things that we learned:

• Ancient Egyptians took people’s brains out of their nose before they were mummified!
• Rich ancient Egyptians could afford special coffins
• They shaved their heads and wore wigs to show they had more money
• The brain wasn’t considered an important organ
• Polar bears live in the Arctic
• The huge Irish deer is now extinct
• We saw an organ being played for the first time
• Haggis is not actually a real animal
• Many Scottish people migrated to America to make money
• There are lots of different jobs in the museum – people who clean the exhibits, security to protect everything and someone called a taxidermist who stuffs the animals

Skills we used:

• we travelled by subway and found our way to the museum
• we made good decisions with our money
• we had to work out how many things we could buy at the shop and work out our change – which was very tricky!