York Castle Museum

Downloadable Resources

We have a number of downloadable trails and teachers' packs connected to our exciting new exhibitions at the museum.

Click on the following headings to download a printable PDF.

KS1 Homes Gallery Trail, which takes in the 1950s Front Room, Spotless!, From Cradle to Grave and the Hearth Gallery.

KS1 Toys Trail about toys down the ages right up to the virtually the present day taking in both sides of the museum including our Toy Gallery.

KS1 Electricity! Bright Sparks Gallery Circuit looking at how things worked before and after the introduction of electricity into our homes.

KS2 Swinging Sixties Trail, looking at this exciting decade of change.

KS2 Victorian Life Trail which takes a look at what life was like for the rich and the poor in Victorian times.

KS2 Prison History Trail, a quiz-style trail which looks back at the museum building's previous life as two prisons.

KS2 Prison History Trail Answers, the same trail as above with the correct answers included.