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Dance & Music week: A Ball at the Winter Palace (11-15 March 2019)

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  • The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
  • Monday, 11 Mar 2019 - Friday, 15 Mar 2019
  • Key stage 1, Key stage 2
  • History, Art & Design, Dance, Drama, English Literature, Music
  • Learning from paintings, Dance and Drama, Fashion
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Details

Details

Children will have the opportunity to visit the magnificence and riches of the Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs exhibition; viewing extraordinary items of Faberge, porcelain, exotic and highly coloured furniture and stunning paintings.  Then using information they have gathered they will then create the scene of a ball in the Winter Palace during the 1860’s and learn The Grand March, a Victorian dance.

Session Learning Objectives:

  • Discover how visual and tactile qualities were used by the artists to convey mood, ideas and feelings in the paintings
  • Find out about the music, art and fashion of the period
  • Make comparisons with modern day life and the time of the 1860s


In this session children will:

  • Have the opportunity to explore replica costumes from the time
  • Perform an historical dance that would have been familiar to visitors to the Russian Imperial court

Session times: 10:15 and 12:30

Duration: 
Key Stage 1 - 1 hour, 30 minutes

Key Stage 2 - 2 hours

Travel

Travel

The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA

By train

The nearest train stations are London Victoria (10 minute walk) or London Charing Cross (20 minute walk). 

Visit National Rail Enquiries for times and fares.

By underground

The nearest tube stations are Victoria, Green Park, St. James's Park and Hyde Park Corner (all approximately 10 minutes walk).  

For further information visit the Transport for London website.

By coach / bus

Bus numbers 11, 211, C1 and C10 stop on Buckingham Palace Road.  Victoria Coach Station is a 10-minute walk from the Palace.  

For further information visit the Transport for London website.

Related exhibition
Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs

The relationship between Britain and Russia through the art exchanged