Immersive Viking Shows

Adventure Histories offers engaging Viking shows that are brought directly to your school, lasting from 1 to 4 hours. Our shows combine an oral lecture and multimedia presentation with hands-on demonstrations, allowing students to interact directly with historically accurate replica artefacts. Adventure Histories provides shows for Secondary and Upper Primary school students. This is a mobile service provided to schools within approximately 2 hours of Albury, NSW.

Tailored Curriculum Topics

Our content is explicitly linked to syllabus outcomes and can be customised to suit your specific year level or teaching unit. We can explore a wide range of facets of the Viking Age, including:

-The Scandinavian Context - Everyday life in the Viking homelands (geography, culture, folklore, sources of evidence, social hierarchy, beliefs, and everyday life).

-Expanding Contacts - Viking trade and military connections with other peoples (changing technologies, ships, weapons, armour, values, conquests, trade connections, explorations, strategies and tactics for raiding and conquests).

-Viking Legacies - Enduring Viking impacts on the world (significant individuals, conquests, relationships with other peoples, and influences in modern culture).

🛡️ Why Choose This Hands-on show?

Presentations are built on extensive teaching experience and align directly with educational outcomes, featuring:

Hands-on Engagement: Fun student participation, the rare opportunity to handle historically accurate replica artefacts.
High-Quality Artefacts: Authentic, quality replicas from Sweden including weapons, armour, clothing, jewellery, tools, coins, etc.
Curriculum Alignment: Content explicitly tailored and linked to relevant syllabus outcomes.
Expert Knowledge: Delivered by an experienced and qualified history teacher.
Logistics Confidence: Fully covered by Public Liability Insurance and Working With Children Clearance.

Our replicas are very high quality, and historically accurate resources with many recreated from archaeological finds and additionally are imported from authentic Swedish providers. Replicas include:

swords
axes
spears
saxes
riveted chainmail
leather armour
shields
helmet
a range of male and female clothing
jewellery
coins
trade goods
drinking vessels
hygiene implements
And much more!

Day Show Structure

What does the show include? Short and longer form shows can be tailored to include a combination of the following:

Presentation

Multimedia presentation where information and an historical overview are given, artefacts are displayed and explained with specific detail, and demonstrations of use are given. Students and staff volunteers are invited into demonstrations to enhance involvement in the presentation.

Artefact Interaction Intermission

All students are able to interact and handle artefacts with guidance and ask any questions in an open forum discussion. Students can also dress in authentic costumes, armour, and handle weapons (under supervision), and of course ask any further questions they might have.

Please note, if student behaviour is considered by our educator as unsuitable for artefact interaction this segment may be reduced, delayed or removed from the day program.

Structure

Some schools prefer to have several classes together for the day and experience different shows one after the other. eg Classes A, B, and C all experiencing together The Scandinavian Context, Expanding Contacts and Viking Legacies.

Other schools prefer to have the same show run multiple times over the day with different classes being present to reduce numbers and increase interaction time with artefacts. eg Expanding Contacts first with class A, then class B, then class C.

School Cost Prices

Please Note: Our prices are subject to a minimum fee based on location.

Zone 1- Albury area within Gerogery, Bethanga, Tangambalanga, Chiltern, Howlong, Burrumbuttock.

We charge from $900.

Zone 2 - within Henty, Holbrook, Eskdale, Myrtleford, Wangaratta, Corowa, Coreen

We charge from $1100.

Zone 3 - within Wagga Wagga, Corryong, Harrietville, Shepparton, Urana.

We charge from $1200.

Things to Remember

We are happy to discuss tailoring our programs' content to suit your needs.
We always do our best to fit in with your school's timetable.
We may be open to negotiations on prices depending upon what is required.
We are GST exempt.
Set-up and pack-up times are about 45 minutes.

Cancellation Policy: For cancellations which occur within seven business days of the booking date, there is a cancellation fee of 20% of the invoice total. In many cases, we can reschedule incursions if that solves the problem.

Student Behaviour: In the unlikely event of students being disruptive to the show, we reserve the right to insist such students leave the show.

Artefacts: In the unlikely situation of artefacts or gear being damaged or stolen, appropriate reimbursement is to be made to Adventure Histories.

Essential Logistics at a Glance

Student Limit - Maximum of 90 students per show.

Setup/Pack-up - Approximately 45 minutes for set up and 45 minutes for pack up are required.

School Supplies -The school needs to supply a TV or projector to facilitate the multimedia presentation.

See Terms of Trade for additional information

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