Tag Archives: Families in Museums

The Exhibition Explorers’ latest adventures

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Posted by administrator on May 12, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

Exhibition Explorers is now midway through. We’re having a fascinating time exploring museums and galleries from toddlers’ perspectives. Between sessions, everyone’s been embarking on a ‘Family Adventure’ and coming back with tales of what they discover. We add these to… Read more

Little details: big impact – a closer look at family museum experiences

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Posted by administrator on April 27, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

A key part of Exhibition Explorers at the Shipley has been exploring the gallery environment with the children. Hopefully over the course of the project all the grown ups involved – both parents and staff – will understand better what a… Read more

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

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Posted by administrator on February 24, 2016     Permalink     Comments (2)

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

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Posted by administrator on February 18, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

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