Museum offers special school holiday visit

THE National Museum and Art Gallery is offering an exciting, free school holiday programme for students in Port Moresby during the first term break.
In this programme the students will take a journey to trace the past in search of understanding mankind. The programme will run from today to Friday.
National Museum and Art Gallery manager for access education and publication division, Michael Kisombo said archaeologists had made historic discoveries in Papua New Guinea that revealed fascinating insights about man’s survival in a land known as Sahul; a landmass bridging Australia and New Guinea.
He said the two important sites discovered in the country would be the highlights of the programme.
These two sites are Kuk, in Western Highlands province, that placed PNG as one of the pioneer agricultural sites in the world, and the most recent discoveries made at Kosipe, Central province, that rewrote history about the earliest occupancy of Sahul.
“During the first day of the school holiday programme, students will be taken to an excavation site for hands-on-experience guided by our own chief archaeologist Herman Mandui,” Kisimbo said.
The students will be given opportunity to learn about techniques used by archaeologists to excavate sites; how sites are selected and dug and to understand the significance of the results found.
“We are adamant that such exposure will ignite students at an early age to be passionate about history to understand themselves and the human kind,” he said.
He issued an open invitation to interested students to attend.
about the history of PNG and the work of archaeologists. They can call the national museum and art gallery’s education officer, Asi Sando, on phone: 325 2422 or on mobile: 72074049.
Registration closes today and there are 40 spaces available.