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How school activities in the British Museum's Parthenon galleries have developed from paper trails to an augmented reality app

Katherine Biggs Education Manager: Samsung Digital Discovery Centre

School visits to the British Museum

How many schools come?250,000 students visited the Museum in 2012-13 of whom 130,583 were from UK schools

What ages visit?About 80% of UK school visitors are from primary schools, the vast majority of these in Key Stage 2 (7-11 years), with a growing number at Key Stage 1 and younger.

What do schools do?Almost all schools work in the galleries, led by their teachers. About 35,000 students take part in our taught programme.

The Parthenon sculptures

Celebrating Athens

Introducing technology

The Parthenon Frieze

Section A

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This section of the frieze shows part of the procession.

Section A

Section B

Find 9 things.Look carefully at the

frieze in front of you…

Find three chariots.

A gift for Athena

Main start page of game (sponsor page)

Boreas slide

Map with two start points

Redo ‘story’ for East ped

Redo ‘point at sculpture’

Redo twinkle

Redo

Redo

Redo

Redo

Redo

Redo

Redo with incense woman

Redo with incense woman

What’s next?

kbiggs@britishmuseum.org

www.britishmuseum.org/samsungcentre