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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This resource is designed to support your work discussing and engaging young audiences with difficult, challenging or sensitive topics, including supporting staff and visitor wellbeing.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Primary school, Secondary school, Young people
Read the second part of our guide to how your heritage organisation can engage children, young people and families with difficult or challenging topics. This section discusses how to practically embed this work in your organisation.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Primary school, Secondary school, Young people
Read the third and final part of our guide to how your heritage organisation can engage children, young people and families with difficult or challenging topics. This section discusses how to support staff and young participants, and provides links to further resources to help you.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Primary school, Secondary school, Young people
This resource is to support museums, galleries and cultural organisations working with children and families to broaden their understanding of play and find ways to incorporate play into their day-to-day work and service provision.
Categories: External resources, Play