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]
1. Introduction: How can your museum work alongside children, young people and families to develop anti-racist practice?
Read the introduction to our guide to how your heritage organisation can work with children, young people and families to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Young people
2. Background: How can your museum work alongside children, young people and families to develop anti-racist practice?
Read the second part of our guide to how your heritage organisation can work with children, young people and families to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement. This section puts the movement into context in the UK.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Young people
3. Getting started: How can your museum work alongside children, young people and families to develop anti-racist practice?
Read the third part of our guide to how your heritage organisation can work with children, young people and families to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement. This section discusses how to embed this work in your organisation.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Young people
4. Working with children, young people and families: How can your museum work alongside children, young people and families to respond to develop anti-racist practice?
Read the fourth and final part of our guide to how your heritage organisation can work with children, young people and families to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement. This section discusses practical and creative ways to engage children, young people and families.
Categories: Equality and inclusion
Audience: Children, Family, Young people
Welcoming families to your venue: Training films
These two short films are designed to support your staff and volunteers to develop a more welcoming environment for families.
Categories: Creating family events and resources, Play
Audience: Family
Welcoming families to your venue
Our top tips on supporting your staff and volunteers to give a friendly welcome to family visitors.
Categories: Creating family events and resources, Play
Audience: Family
Playful Museums Case Study: Coventry Transport Museum
In our Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX, we supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020. Here Anja Keitel-Campsall, Learning Officer - Families, shares how Coventry Transport Museum encouraged safe play with its family visitors.
Categories: Play
Audience: Family
Playful Museums Case Study: PK Porthcurno
In our Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX, we supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020. Here Kay Dalton, Engagement Curator, shares how PK Porthcurno encouraged safe play with its family visitors.
Categories: Play
Audience: Family
Playful Museums Case Study: Rugby Museum and Art Gallery
In our Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX, we supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020. Here Rachel Coldicott, Education Development Assistant, and Sally Godden, Senior Learning and Outreach Officer, share how Rugby Museum encouraged safe play with its family visitors.
Categories: Play
Audience: Family
Playful Museums Case Study: Amberley Museum
In our Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX, we supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020. Here Louisa Jones, Learning Officer, share how Amberley Museum encouraged safe play with its family visitors.
Categories: Play
Audience: Family
Playful Museums Case Study: Compton Verney
In our Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX, we supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020. Here Emma Butchart, Learning and Diversity Manager, shares how Compton Verney encouraged safe play with its family visitors.
Categories: Play
Audience: Family
Playful Museums Case Study: National Museum of the Royal Navy
In our Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX, we supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020. Here Elliott Bailey, Public Programming Manager, and Claire Hargreaves, Public Programming Producer, share how the National Museum of the Royal Navy encouraged safe play with its family visitors.
Categories: Play
Audience: Family
