Kids in Museums

Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma at Manchester Museum...

Kids in Museums volunteer, Rebecca Willmott discovered that science can be fun at Manchester Museum in an exhibition to celebrate the work of Alan Turing…

You may not believe that an exhibition about a computer developer would be very exciting, but you would be mistaken. To celebrate 100 years of Alan … Read more

Added: April 27, 2012Comments: 0

Family Fortunes Workshop, People’s History Museum, 14th March 2012...

Kids in Museums volunteer Laura Archer reports back on her first event volunteering for us, getting stuck in to our Family Fortunes workshop held in Manchester earlier in March….

On Wednesday 14th March, The People’s History Museum in Manchester hosted the latest Kids in Museums Family Fortunes … Read more

Added: April 20, 2012Comments: 0

Costume Museums...

Dressing up is a key activity in any museum setting. Kids in Museums volunteers, Emma Patterson and Leonie Saywell have been discovering two museums dedicated to dressing up in different parts of the country…

Fashion Museum, Bath

At the moment, the Fashion Museum in … Read more

Added: March 7, 2012Comments: 0

The Lowry Gallery...

Kids in Museums volunteer Leonie Saywell, went back to Salford to see how the collection and the location has changed dramatically… 

Once upon a time I worked, not terribly happily, for a charity in Salford and visiting the Lowry Collection at the University was the only attraction in a landscape that still looked … Read more

Added: February 16, 2012Comments: 0

Manchester Museum unearths the Ancient Egyptians for families...

Kids in Museums volunteer, Melanie Williamson enjoyed visiting Manchester Museum’s current exhibition, Unearthed: Ancient Egypt…

I became an archaeologist for a day at Manchester Museum. As you enter this temporary exhibition there is a film introducing the rather pompous Dr. Digby, a world renowned archaeologist, teaching you the tricks of his … Read more

Added: January 29, 2012Comments: 0