Sharjah museums open first-of-its-kind interactive hall for archaeology
Sharjah Museums Authority (SMA) has opened the country’s first interactive hall that teaches children about archaeology and Sharjah’s antiquities.
Located at Sharjah Archeology Museum, the hall that employs unconventional teaching methods, provides children aged 4 to 12 years with the opportunity to learn about the origins and development of Sharjah’s human culture, history, and development.
Thanks to the way it has been designed and the techniques and models it employs, the hall will help develop children’s senses and stimulate their imagination.
It will also test youngsters understating of significant archaeological findings that were uncovered in Sharjah and that date back to the Stone Age and to the early AD centuries revealing remarkable information about the populations of the emirate at the time.
A life-size camel figurine on display at the hall will educate children about domestication of animals by Sharjah people over 3,000 years ago.
It will also help them understand how camels have helped facilitate transportation of people and products including incense and spices to the trade centres in Muwailih and Maliha, in addition to using its leather and wool to make tents and rugs.
At the shadow corner, pupils will engage in different activities and will learn how to reflect shapes of animals that lived in ancient Sharjah on a wall, using their hands and a source of light.
Other corners in the hall will offer activities including painting on rocks and arranging images that help tell the story of old Sharjah.
