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WINNER OF 2010 GUARDIAN FAMILY FRIENDLY MUSEUM AWARD ANNOUNCED
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, is officially the most family friendly museum in Britain. It took a team of undercover family judges, secretly visiting the six shortlisted museums and assessing them against the Kids in Museums Manifesto, to pick out a winner. Head over to our Guardian Award pages to find out more.
WORLD BOOK DAY - 4 MARCH 2010
Kids in Museums volunteer Victoria Wallop has looked through her bookshelves to find stories that mention museums. See what she found in our features section.
ROAD TESTING THE 2010 KIDS IN MUSEUMS MANIFESTO
Our volunteers are going our and about, looking at what’s new and interesting in museums throughout the country. First up, the Henry Moore Exhibition at Tate Britain. Go to our features section to find out more.
200 MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES SUPPORT 2010 MANIFESTO
Critch Tramway Village has become the 200th supporter of the 2010 Kids in Museums Manifesto.
If you’d like your museum, gallery or historic house to join the ever growing list of supporters aspiring to the family friendly aims of the Manifesto, sign up today by emailing signup@kidsinmuseums.org.uk We’d love to have you on board.
SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR GUARDIAN FAMILY FRIENDLY MUSEUM AWARD
We had thousands of nominations for hundreds of museums, but only six could make it to the shortlist. To find out who, just go to our Award pages.
FLEXIBLE FAMILY TICKET CAMPAIGN
What’s the shape of your family?
A top issue for family visitors – point number two on our new 2010 Kids in Museums Manifesto – is families are confronted with family tickets that just don’t fit. Because their family isn’t a two plus two.
Kids in Museums has launched the Flexible Family Ticket campaign – beginning with asking you what you’ve experienced in asking for a family ticket. And asking museums what they offer.
Find out more and tell us what you think on our Family Ticket Watch page.
OUR 2010 KIDS IN MUSEUMS MANIFESTO IS HERE
Compiled entirely from families’ comments, the 2010 Manifesto has 20 points showing how a museum or gallery can be more welcoming for all families. This year, the Manifesto leads the way on important issues, from flexible family tickets to somewhere to leave the pram and pushchair. It asks museums to reach out beyond their own four walls, and go to our homes and communities when we can’t come to them.
To find out more about the Manifesto and what it means for you, your family and your museum, go to our Manifesto pages.
WELCOME TO KIDS IN MUSEUMS
Take a look around this website and discover the wonderful world of Kids in Museums, download the Kids in Museums Manifesto, or take part in one of our lively discussions.
We’re a young, fresh, dynamic organisation, led by visitors and informed by a visitor’s point of view so you, the visitor, are very important to us. Our vision is that all families, whoever you are, will be fully welcomed in Britain’s museums and galleries.
Museums up and down the country are striving to make everyone not only feel welcome once they have entered their doors, but able and eager to take those first few steps towards them. Kids in Museums supports, influences and drives this change.
It’s an exciting time to be embarking upon our projects. Never before has there been such imaginative and innovative practice in Britain’s museums and galleries.
Explore the website to find out more about who we are, what we’re up to and how you can get involved. Most importantly, please join our discussions. We’d love to hear from you!
SIGN UP TO THE KIDS IN MUSEUMS MANIFESTO
More and more museums and arts organisations are signing up to the new 2009 Kids in Museums Manifesto, showing their support for its aims. To find out if your favourite museum has signed up, go to our Manifesto pages.
WEBSITE ALERT!
…check out the Kids in Museums twitter pages and feel free to contribute, especially any interesting articles and websites you come across or pioneering work with families.
…for interviews, articles and reports relevant to Kids in Museums’ work, please visit our features page.
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Top photo: Falmouth Art Gallery © Linda Nylind.
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