Eyam Museum provides a great deal of background material to support projects and classwork.  Ordering information is given on our booklist. The following is a list of the contents of our Teachers’ Pack, some of which can be downloaded as Word documents.

A guide to the museum and a list of the facilities

A set of 23 worksheets which can be used on a visit.  Classwork suggestions are given on the back of the sheets. Here is a sample worksheet and corresponding classwork suggestions

Comparative photo pairs of then and now in the village,  pictures of well known sites around Eyam, and a portrait of the Rector, William Mompesson.

A chronological list of victims of the plague.

The “St Paul’s Churchyard Broadsheet”,  an imaginary contemporary broadsheet giving useful and often amusing background historical information.

A list of the symptoms of the plague.

A set of sheets describing some ancient “cures”.

A map of the village, and a local geological map.

The last will and testament of George Darby.