Resources

Creating Family Friendly Interpretation

Kids in Museums and Sarah Shaw (Director of Museum Tales Ltd)

Top tips for creating accessible family friendly text and panels in your museum or heritage site. Photograph by Msc1photography for Kids in Museums.

SEND in Museums Advocacy Film

SEND in Museums

A ten minute advocacy film showing the reason why children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) should be welcomed in museums and galleries.

Dance and Museums working together symposium report

Emma McFarland

The Dance and Museums Working Together Symposium took place in November 2014 and was produced by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the Horniman Museum and Gardens. This external evaluation began to outline a model for the different ways in which museums and artists/arts organisations can collaborate together.

Film: Waving goodbye to Victorian Dad

Bristol Culture, Elliott Mayhew

Why use diverse performance in museums? 'Waving goodbye to Victorian dad' was organised by Bristol Culture as part of 'Doing Things Differently'. Supported by Bristol City Council and Arts Council England. Film by Elliott Mayhew.

My primary school is at the museum

Kings College London

'My primary school is at the museum' tested the hypothesis that there may be beneficial learning, social and cultural outcomes for primary school children and their families when a significant portion of their learning takes place in a museum setting, as well as demonstrating the benefits for museums.

Using dance in the primary history curriculum

Emma McFarland, EMC Arts

From July 2016 – March 2017 dance company Made By Katie Green undertook a research project exploring how dance might be used to teach history in primary schools, supported by an 'Arts-based learning Explore and Test grant' from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

British Museum Fieldnotes – Dance and Movement

On completion of the 'Exploring Objects Sharing Cultures' supplementary schools project, dance artists were invited by the British Museum to write some thoughts about using movement in museums, particularly with children and young people.