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From the tip of Scotland to the Southwest of England, the 20 museums making it to the Guardian Family Friendly Award longlist all share one thing – they go that extra mile to welcome families. Here’s who they are and what the experts – visitors – said about them: Abbey House Museum, Leeds ‘My mum […]
Winner of the 2010 Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award, The Herbert boasts 8 new permanent galleries, temporary exhibitions and events spaces, education spaces, a new History Centre and Herbert Media studios.
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The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, is officially the most family friendly museum in Britain. Thanks to a £20 million redevelopment, careful planning of their interactive exhibits, excellent family learning programmes and some warm welcoming staff, they’ve just won the 2010 Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award. Undercover family judges included Claire Jowett, who visited […]
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What’s the shape of your 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 […]
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Kids in Museums is a charity that is very close to our hearts. For the charity, as for us, museums aren’t collections of dusty old objects, lying idly in a musty, dim room. Instead they are places where families can go to enjoy interactive exhibitions, where the kids can dress up, play around, get hands […]
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A few weeks on from launch and so far so good. We’ve not told too many people about the site yet – we’ve mainly been fixing bugs and tidying up. In fact, if you find anything odd looking around our pages, let us know and we’ll get it sorted.The last few days have been exciting […]
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The National Maritime Museum has lots of free family activities including messy play for under 3s, activities, storytelling, performance, discovery trails and make and do for under 5s and older children. Children will also love the planetarium shows.
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