Resources
Here you can find all of our resources. These include guides to taking part in our programmes and practical advice on how to make your museum more accessible and family friendly. We’ve also included resources from our partners that we think you’ll find helpful.
In the right hand menu, you can search all of our resources, or select the category and audience relevant to you. You can also click on resource tags to see all resources on that subject.
You can find all bilingual Welsh and English resources under the Welsh Language tag. Welsh versions of the resource can often be found as a PDF download from the bottom of the page.
If you have a resource you think would fit on this page, or you are looking for a more specific Takeover Day example, please contact us: [email protected]
Kids in Museums Manifesto Self-Assessment Tool
This practical tool supports you to do a light touch self-audit of how well your museum or heritage site meets our Kids in Museums Manifesto.
Categories: Manifesto
Audience: Family
Creating Family Friendly Exhibitions
This resource is designed to support you to create family exhibitions in your museum. It looks at the process of developing and delivering an exhibition with practical tips and ideas from recent family exhibitions.
Categories: Creating family events and resources
Audience: Family
Creating Self-Guided Resources for Families
Our top tips for creating self-guided resources for children and families at your museum or heritage site.
Categories: Creating family events and resources
Audience: Children, Family, SEND, Under 5s, Young people
Creating Family Friendly Interpretation
Our top tips for creating accessible family friendly text and panels in your museum or heritage site.
Categories: Creating family events and resources
Audience: Family
Maintaining healthy boundaries when working with young people
Read our top tips on how to create and maintain healthy boundaries when working with young people.
Categories: Wellbeing
Audience: Young people
How can your museum safely welcome unaccompanied child visitors?
How old does a child or young person need to be to visit a museum on their own? We’ve put together some information on how you can tackle this question at your venue.
Categories: Wellbeing
Audience: Children, Young people
How to hold a play themed Takeover Day or Digital Takeover Day
Read our advice on how to hold a play themed Takeover Day or Digital Takeover Day in your organisation.
Categories: Digital Takeover Day, Play, Takeover Day
Audience: Children, Primary school, Secondary school, Uniformed group, Young people
I’m A Teenager… Get Me Into There!
This free online training programme aims to support heritage sites to engage young people: I’m A Teenager… Get Me Into There!
Categories: External resources, Youth Consultation
Audience: Young people
Takeover Day: Template letter to museums
Download a template letter to encourage your local museum to get involved in Takeover Day.
Categories: Takeover Day
Audience: Family, Primary school, Secondary school, Uniformed group, Young people
Marketing to teachers
Over the 2021-22 school year, Art Fund worked with teachers to research what support they needed to use museums and galleries more often as resources in their teaching. Read their findings.
Categories: External resources, Marketing/Communications
Audience: Primary school, Secondary school
Takeover Day Case Study: Hertford Museum
On Takeover Day 2022, primary school pupils created a Wellbeing Trail at Hertford Museum. Vicky Smith, Learning Officer, shares how the museum planned and delivered their Takeover Day.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: Primary school
Takeover Day Case Study: National Museum of the Royal Navy
The National Museum of the Royal Navy used their Takeover Day in 2022 to consult home educating families on how they could make HMS Victory a more fun and playful site for children and families. Claire Hargreaves, Public Programming Producer, shares how the museum planned and delivered their Takeover Day.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: Family