Resources tagged with family friendly



A mother and child look at a large label on an object from a war time watch station

Creating Family Friendly Interpretation

Top tips for creating accessible family friendly text and panels in your museum or heritage site. Developed by Kids in Museums in partnership with Sarah Shaw, Director of Museum Tales Ltd.

A youngboywearing galsses points excitedly at apiece of chocolate cake

Museum Cafés: Creating a family friendly catering offer

Your café can be an important factor when families are deciding whether to visit your museum. This handy guide by Kids in Museums offers insight into what families want from museum cafés and top tips on how to make them more family friendly.

A man stands with one foot on a wooden chest. His arms are open wide and he is wearing a furry hat with large ear flaps

Brighton Open Air Theatre – adapting and learning through a pandemic

Like most arts organisations in the UK, the Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the activities of Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT). However, the team at BOAT have shown remarkable resilience in implementing changes and learnings into their work throughout the past year, in order to safely welcome families back to their open … Read more

Two warmly dressed toddlers wearing bobble hats play in a large container of sand. They are sat on the steps of a museum

Playful Museums case study: Poole Museum

Kids in Museums supported 11 museums across the UK to trial new play ideas during October half term 2020 as part of their Play in Museums in a Socially Distanced World project with Charlotte Derry and PlayKX. Here the Learning team from Poole Museum share how Poole Museum encouraged safe play with its family visitors.

A group of excited children surround a bright blue elephant puppet

Family audiences: welcoming back after Covid-19

The Family Arts Campaign and Indigo have worked together to look at how families feel about returning to live events after Covid-19. Many family audiences have much in common with other regular culture-goers. However, there are a few significant areas where they differ significantly and which might hold some clues for venues, producing organisations and … Read more

Welcoming families with baby steps #ADA

The first blog by Joy Corcec (Communications Officer) and Imogen Lloyd (Digital Marketing Officer)  at Culture Coventry as part of their Fellowship at the Audience Diversity Academy 

A pink Mammoth on a plinth being admired by several awe-inspired people

Kids in Museums Manifesto

The Kids in Museums‘ Manifesto is a set of simple guidelines for museums created with children, young people and families. It sets out what they feel makes a museum a great place to visit. The first Manifesto was created in 2004 and they have continued to develop it with feedback from children, young people and … Read more