Shrapnel Boys: Life on the Home Front Museum Trail

Kids in Museums is inviting families across the UK to take part in a fun, free museum trail this May half-term, exploring life on the home front for children in World War II and you can join the fun at Liskeard & District Museum.

Working with children’s publisher Usborne, Kids in Museums have created a new, free family museum trail, inspired by Shrapnel Boys, a forthcoming new novel by award-winning author Jenny Pearson. Search the museum for different parts of a child’s day to day life during wartime, think about the objects you might use from the museum if you needed to be resourceful, and enter our VE Day bunting design drawing competition to be in the running to win a signed book bundle from Jenny Pearson and a Double National Art Pass (Plus Kids) from Art Fund. Complete the trail and get a free sticker!

Open Saturday 24th-Saturday 31st May, 10am-4pm (10am-1pm on Saturdays), closed Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 26th May.

About Shrapnel Boys | Shrapnel Boys is a novel about the friendship and courage of a group of young boys living through World War II.

When war comes to London in 1939, Ronnie Smith is scared and excited: scared of the bombs that fall at night, but excited to race his friends to collect the best bits of shrapnel every morning.

But for Ronnie, the battles aren’t just in the sky and on the streets. They’re at school and at home too. His little brother is up to no good with a secret job and dangerous new friends, and Ronnie’s worried he’s getting himself into big trouble.

Ronnie’s desperate to help his little brother. But he isn’t expecting to uncover secrets that could change the fate of the whole war…