Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: Maximum 30 students
Location: Galleries and Learning Studio

How did objects from three empires make their way into the Wallace Collection? Investigating key objects now on display in the museum, your students will explore the histories of the Qing Dynasty in China, the Asante Kingdom in West Africa, and the Sikh Empire in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Through close looking and discussion, students will consider the material culture of each empire and their connection to Britain’s imperial past.

What will your students learn?

• To evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design.
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
• To deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘imperialism’, ‘orientalism‘ and ‘appropriation’.

Curriculum links

• KS3-5: History
• AQA History GCSE module, ‘Migration, Empires and the People’
• OCR B History GCSE ‘The Mughal Empire 1526 – 1707'
• OCR A History A Level ‘African Kingdoms