Education Heritage Museum
Tourism Region: Great Victoria
Our museum is a virtual museum that is freely available on line. The purpose is to make available educational artifacts for teachers, students, researchers, teachers, and other museum workers. The goal is to improve the teaching of educational history at the university level and to enhance existing education exhibits in other museums. The Education Heritage Museum hosts a small, rotating display of education artifacts in the main hallway of the University of Victoria MacLaurin building. However, the "whole" museum is to be found on the website so that anyone around the world can access it.
Victoria, British Columbia
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, P.O. Box 3010 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia
Collections are educational artifacts used in kindergarten to grade 12 schools in Canada from the mid-1800s to the 1980s. These include lesson plans, objects (posters, bells, ink bottles, fountain pens, desks, maps, etc.) as well as athletic clothing, photographs, school yearbooks, etc.
Approximate number of objects in the collections: 1700
as noted above
Electronic Records •
Prints and Drawings •
Films and Videos •
Sound Recordings •
We have materials for the teaching of art (such as paints, posters, lithographs, etc.)
Furniture or Furnishings •
Musical Instruments •
Textiles or Tapestries
We have materials that have been used to teach about cultures around the world, such as posters, records, sheet music, books
African • American • Asian • Australian • Canadian • Aboriginal or First Nations • Inuit • European • Central/South American
Other Period: From 1840s to 1980s
Painting • Photography • Prints and Drawings • Sketchbooks or Albums • Film and Video
Educational history - artifacts from classrooms and schools
Costumes and Accessories
Furniture or Furnishings
Maps, Charts, Plans or Blueprints
Physics, Mathematics or Metrology
Services & Activities
We offer free self-access to materials, lessons, photos, and images of objects used in teaching in Canada from the mid-1800s to the 1980s. We have interviews and film footage that we'd like to add to the site soon.
We research the use of the materials to assist historians, teachers, and students.We also lend materials to schools and university researchers.
Archival Records •
Conservation or Restoration •
n/a We are virtual
Other Guided Tours: n/a We are virtual
Volunteer Services Available •
Volunteer Training Offered
Number of Volunteers: 2 (regular); unlimited drop in
Activities: Our volunteers consist of retired teachers who collect and catalogue donated artifacts. These are then passed on to our webmaster who photographs the images and uploads them to the virtual museum.
n/a We are virtual
Publications & Products
We are not yet at this point. However, we hope to soon be publishing Annual reports, and audio/ video materials.
Wrought iron desk used in elementary schools during late 1800s. Note that desk is bolted to wooden slats as it was once bolted down in classroom indicating lack of mobility. This contrasts with mobile desks enabling small workgroups in today's classrooms. Note also ink well on desk.
© Donor: Judi and Patrick Warrington
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