Interactive quizzes / History & Culture

Museum of Everyday Objects

Read wear, shape and context on invented museum cards to work out what ordinary things were for, then order object trios using receipts, archive notes, dig depths and serial numbers.

8 tasks2 sectionsabout 5 min

All museum cards, towns, receipts, dig sites and tool makers are invented for this quiz. Each card supplies the clues you need. The quiz practices telling what an object shows apart from what a curator infers.

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