Family Fortunes Workshops
How museums, galleries and visitor attractions can better welcome families, and why they should.
Why not come to our Family Fortunes workshop in Manchester in March? If your museum is thinking about developing a family offer or if your existing services could benefit from a bit of an update then this workshop is for you. Read more…
The Flexible Family Ticket
What’s the shape of today’s British family?
- Mum plus her four kids.
- Dad plus his only child, and the young cousin who lives with them.
- Grandparents and their grandchildren for whom they care.
- Big sister and very little sister, whom she looks after.
- Mum, Dad, Auntie and her daughter.
What’s the shape of a typical family ticket to a museum or gallery?
- Two plus two.
Find out what we’re doing to improve family tickets
Book your place on our Family Fortunes workshop, Manchester 14th March 2012.
Take Over Day
Kids across the country are taking over museums on Takeover Day 2012.
Kids in Museums is joining forces for the third year with the Children’s Commissioner to support Takeover Day in the Autumn, date tba. Takeover Day is an annual event offering children and young people across the country the chance to work alongside adults and get involved in decision-making. Read more…
I Can’t See It
Revealing what a museum visit looks like from a young person’s perspective
I Can’t See It is an innovative DVD, filmed, edited and produced by young people – so you get an honest account of what a museum visit does (and doesn’t do) for them. It’s the Kids in Museums Manifesto in visual form. We hope I Can’t See It will be used by museums just as the Kids in Museums Manifesto is – as a tool to make the experience more family friendly. Read more…
Your Museum Cafe
On today’s menu…
Lots of families have told us that a visit to the café is an important part of their museum experience. They want to feel welcome in the whole museum, the café included. The importance of extending family friendly values to the café even features as a point on the Kids in Museums Manifesto 2012
In response Kids in Museums started cooking something up: the Your Museum Café project, working with families, museums and galleries to produce guidelines for family friendly museum cafés that meet everyone’s needs – families, museums and other venues. Read more…
