We had a great time today at the Kids in Museums Creating #FamilyFriendlyMuseums session sharing our experience as 2023 award winners.

Nominations are open for 2024. Fill out the quick and easy online form here👉bit.ly/VoteFFMA

Photo by Stephen Garnett for #KidsinMuseums

🌟 Work for a museum that creates amazing experiences for families, children or young people? Nominate your museum for the Family Friendly Museum Award to recognise and celebrate this important work! Open until 3 June: bit.ly/FFMA24

What do young people want from museums? Join our Youth Panel at the #MandHShow to hear their thoughts, then swing by the Sector Support Hub to chat about making your museum more welcoming for children, young people and families 👍

Book a free place: bit.ly/4ae1Chh

📣 NEW SUMMER TRAINING!

Book now for a webinar about the developmental stages of children aged 0-12 and how to use this knowledge to shape engaging activities, led by Anna Salaman.

🎟️ Tickets £5 - £40
🗓️ 6 June, 10am-12.30pm

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📣 Calling all museums!

We’re looking for 8 lead museums to help develop and deliver our new two-year research and development programme with Nesta to explore evidence-led early years innovation in museums.

👉 Find out more: bit.ly/3UahCLQ

📢 NEW SUMMER TRAINING

Join us in June and July for webinars covering:
💥 Creating activities for 0-12 year olds informed by developmental stages
🙌 Working with young volunteers
🌞 Creating family friendly exhibitions
Book: bit.ly/49Xn5KV

Holidays are for... museum visits!

If you've had a brilliant visit somewhere over the Easter holidays, why not nominate them for a Family Friendly Museum Award? It's a great way to recognise all the work that goes into making a museum amazing: bit.ly/FFMA24

Join our mission to make UK museums more accessible and welcoming for all children, young people and families 🤝 The deadline to apply to be a Trustee for Kids in Museums is just 2 days away!

📣 Free training for Welsh Museum staff!

Learn about the developmental stages of children 0-12 & how to develop engaging activities for these ages in an online session led by Anna Salaman, funded by Welsh Government.

Monday 20 May, 10am-12.30pm

Book: bit.ly/3JcEwMs

Our fab Youth Panel will be at #MandHShow on 15 May talking about what young people want from museums.

We'll also have a stand in the Sector Support Hub. Come & talk to us about making your museum better for children, young people & families.

Booking: bit.ly/4ae1Chh

💥LAST CHANCE!

This weekend is the last weekend of #TCHMuseumTrail organised with Walker Books at over 20 museums across the UK. It's also the last chance to enter our competition to win the book and Art Fund pass!

💻Find out more: bit.ly/3OTvcAr

💥There's one week left to apply for our Trustee vacancy.

Our Trustees are passionate about access to museums for children, young people & families & make our charity smarter and stronger.

This is a great time to join them.

📆5pm on 19 April.

💻bit.ly/2qEXeqY

After setting the ball rolling on this Kids in Museums with Walker Books, it was lovely to see the final #TCHMuseumTrail out in the wild today and being enjoyed by families Fitzwilliam Museum in my new role University of Cambridge Museums. 👏 There’s still time to join in 👇

This figure of Shu, the Air God, is in the Religious Figures and Artefacts case on the Ground Floor. Shu looks after the air and wind and was created by the God Atum. Find more #AncientEgypt objects on the #TCHMuseumTrail .

bit.ly/3OTvcAr

A warm welcome to Hannah, Sofia, Naina & Iris who've joined our Youth Panel following a competitive interview process.

Our Youth Panel gives young people aged 16-25 a voice in our work & the chance to run their own projects.

Read more: bit.ly/3TPIH5L

#MuseumYouth

HYFFORDDIANT NEWYDD Mae’r trefniadau archebu’n agored ar gyfer ein sesiwn newydd i Amgueddfeydd Cymru.

Cewch ddysgu am gamau datblygu plant 0-12 oed a chreu gweithgareddau iddynt mewn sesiwn ar-lein dan arweiniad Anna Salaman

20 Mai, 10am - 12.30pm

bit.ly/3JcEwMs

NEW TRAINING!

Booking is open for our new session for Welsh Museums funded by Welsh Government

Learn about the developmental stages of children 0-12 & creating activities for them in an online session led by Anna Salaman.

20 May, 10am-12.30pm

Booking: bit.ly/3JcEwMs

Tawaret is the #AncientEgypt Goddess of childbirth and the protector of the Sun. Follow the #TCHMuseumTrail and find this Taweret Hippo amulet in the top floor archaeology case. bit.ly/4aLWLns

💥Just ONE week left to take part in #TCHMuseumTrail organised with Walker Books and enter our amazing competition to win a copy of the already chart-topping book and a Double Art Pass + Kids donated by Art Fund

Find out more: bit.ly/3OTvcAr