The National Gallery (NG) welcomes about 25,000 pupils and their teachers every year. We had been using automated surveys for about eighteen months but were keen to review the questions in light of some recent changes to programme design and GDPR legislation. We also run Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for teachers and this project also gave us the opportunity to improve the way in which evaluated these sessions…
Launched in 2016, the National Gallery’s Young Producers (YP) programme aims to build the relevance of The National Gallery collection for young audiences. The Young Producers are a dedicated group of young people aged 18–25, some of whom have little to no prior experience of museums and galleries. Together they represent a range of backgrounds and interests and as a team undertake developing briefs for new projects and collaborating with Gallery staff and experts to explore new ways of seeing the collection…
At the Fitzwilliam Museum, we run an extensive programme of activities for children and families. This includes free family drop-in events and bookable workshops for ages 0-2, 2-5, 5-7 and 8-12. In addition to the public programme, we have developed strategic partnership programmes with the aim of reaching new family audiences…
In my role at University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) I lead on Arts Award activity across the different sites and work strategically to develop projects that support Widening Participation (WP) at the university. UCM have worked with the university WP team for many years and the programme is developed alongside the schools programme and in partnership with local secondary schools and Councils…