Posts by venue: Shipley Art Gallery

Exhibition Explorers: five surprising discoveries for the grown-ups!

The second Exhibition Explorers session took place earlier this month. We were delighted that so many of the families returned with their completed ‘Family Adventure’ page, sharing their experience of visiting a museum or gallery since the previous session. You… Read more

Places to go & things to do: embarking on our Family Adventures!

At the second Exhibition Explorers session we were delighted to find so many of the group had been on a Family Adventure to a museum or gallery, and returned with their completed scrapbook page to share their discoveries. Exhibition Explorers is an… Read more

Exhibition Explorers at the Shipley – what our youngest visitors can teach us.

Last week our exciting new project Exhibition Explorers began. Sixteen children aged 1 and 2 and their grown-ups joined us to embark on an exciting six month journey of discovery, finding new ways of enjoying galleries and museums together. This project is focused on… Read more

Growing our family offer

I’m really excited to have developed two new offers for Early Years, both of which are free and fairly flexible for people to drop into: Magic Carpet is a special artist-made bag that folds out into a creative playmat. It comes complete with… Read more

Exhibition Explorers – new adventures ahead!

As we approached the end of the pilot of Creative Baby! it became apparent to me that the offer for Early Years really needed to grow along with the rapidly expanding Early Years audience we’d attracted. The response to Creative Baby!… Read more