West Cheshire Museums rise to the challenge of providing free access to collections and educational support

Cheshire West and Chester Council's four museums enthusiastic and committed museum staff are determined to connect with audiences through social media and their website while the doors are temporarily closed. Using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the Museum's own website, visitors, both young and old, can enjoy pictures from the collections; craft activities and benefit from learning support material linked to the national curriculum.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, West Cheshire Museum's website will feature fun, free children's activities, school support and adult activities, including:

• Make Your Own Chester Model City – every week children can download and colour an outline of a new building in the historic City of Chester with the aim of eventually having their very own model of the City. Chester's Grosvenor Museum and iconic Eastgate Clock are currently available online.
• Twice a week, new activities for children will appear on the website. At present there are templates for colouring and assembling a dinosaur mask, 'cut and colour' fashion clothes and information on how to make a paper plate bunny hat.
• During the children's traditional Easter holiday period (13 to 24 April), there will also be imaginative twice-weekly Easter activities for parents and carers to engage their children indoors.
• School Support – from 21 April, parents or carers who are teaching children from home can access a range of films and work packs that tie in with the national school curriculum, including three projects – an Introduction to the Romans, Archaeology in Chester and Roman armour and weapons.
• Weekly adult activities will be uploaded to the website with, among other things, crochet and sewing projects.
• From 13 April, the Museum will feature information and pictures from a diverse and successful range of four previous exhibitions: Vikings; Motherhood; Watercolours of Chester and the Secrets of Eternal Youth.

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