The purpose of the study is to find out: firstly, how the requirements in the new curriculum (2016) of the elementary schools of Finland can be executed in museum and secondly, what does the local elementary school teachers think about the practical museum pedagogy experiment. According to the guidelines of the curriculum the education should be provided in different environments and include practical activity. One aspect of teaching history is that the pupils should learn how to study different resources restored in museums with other pupils. Experimental workshops for elementary school pupils were held in Arktikum museum located in Rovaniemi. The data was collected by asking opinions of the teachers whose pupils participated on the workshops. According to the data the workshops brought variety to teaching history and gave ideas how to teach the subject in the classrooms. Results also show that the practical approach to teach history in a museum was following the guidelines of the curriculum and was an experiment which can be developed further on.