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Loan Boxes and Photo Packs

Bring the Museum to the classroom. Loan boxes and Photopacks are a fantastic opportunity to bring history to life in the classroom. The loan boxes provide a unique physical link to history and cover a wide variety of situations and eras. Available for termly or half-termly hire. Due to their popularity, please book early to avoid disappointment.

Loan Boxes

  • 1930's
  • 1950's and 60's
  • Ancient Egyptians
  • Clothes & Fashion
  • Coronations
  • Household Objects
  • Silk Industry
  • Victorians Food & Farming
  • Victorian Schooldays
  • Victorian Toys
  • Victorian Washday
  • WW1 in the Trenches
  • WW2

Photopacks

  • A Day Out
  • A Trip to the Seaside
  • History of Silk
  • Macclesfield Now & Then
  • Macclesfield Past
  • Macclesfield Scenes
  • Old Wilmslow
  • Paradise Street
  • Road Transport
  • Schooldays
  • Stuart Portraits
  • Transport
  • Tudor Portraits
  • Victorian Schooldays

Prices (+VAT)

Loanboxes

£25 for 1 term

£15 for 1/2 term

Photopacks

£8 for 1 term

£5 for 1/2 term

If you would like to book a loan box or photopack, please contact the museum
tel: 01625 613210 email education@macclesfield.silk.museum