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INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY:

INTERNATIONAL
Board game MUSEUM DAY: Board game
Background:

There are many, many types of museum around the world. Learning about them is one way of
encouraging the children to visit them. In this exercise, they will learn about some of the most
well-known ones in the world.

You will need:

• one copy of Worksheet 1 for each child

• one copy of Worksheet 2 for each group
• one copy of Worksheet 3 for each group (see optional extension activity)
• one copy of Worksheet 4 for each group (see optional extension activity)
• one die for each group
• one counter for each child

Instructions:

1. Distribute Worksheet 1 to your students. Read through the facts with the children to make
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sure they understand them.

2. Demonstrate how to play the game: To see who goes first, all the children in the
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group throw the die. The one with the highest score goes first, then play continues in a
clockwise direction. The first child throws the die and then moves that number of places
on the board.
Children follow the instructions. If they land on a museum name, they mark the square in
the top left-hand corner of the fact file for that particular museum on Worksheet 1 and
then read the first fact out loud. The second person to land on that same square reads the
second fact, etc. (When a child lands on a museum he/she has already ‘visited’, he/she
does not have to read the fact a second time).

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The winner of the game is the first child to visit all six museums. Note that they will have
to work their way round the board more than once.

3. Distribute one copy of Worksheet 2 to each group of four children. Give each group a
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die and counters so that they can play the game.

Optional extension activity:

Distribute one copy of Worksheets 3 and 4 to each group. Ask the children to prepare
a new board game. They can choose six museums and write four facts about each. They
also fill in the blank spaces on the board game with the name of these new museums.
They can either find and affix pictures of the museum or a work of art for each museum
or colour the corresponding squares. They can play with their own board game or swap
between groups.

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Worksheet 1 Wo r k s h e e t 1

Museum FactSheet
Museum Fact Sheet
The Louvre Metropolitan Museum of Art
This museum is in Paris, France. This museum is in New York City, in the United States
It was once a royal palace. of America.
You can see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in this There are more than two million works of art in the
museum. museum.
There is a glass pyramid in the central courtyard. You can see The Dance Class by Degas.
Another name for the museum is The Met.

The Uffizi Gallery The Prado Museum

This art museum is in Florence, Italy. This art gallery is in Madrid, Spain.
It was once administrative offices (Uffizi means offices). The first idea was to make a Natural History
You can see Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in this museum.
gallery. You can see Velazquez’s Las Meninas.
In 1993, a car bomb exploded and damaged parts Spanish kings collected most of the paintings.
of the museum.

The State Hermitage The British Museum

This museum is in St Petersburg, Russia. This museum is in London, England.
The museum is in six buildings. It has the largest collection of Egyptian art outside
You can see The Dance by Matisse. Egypt, including some mummies.
The museum holds the Guinness World Record for You can see the Rosetta Stone.
the world’s largest painting collection. It was the first national public museum in the world.

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