Creative Families – The First Step
We were delighted to welcome young parents and their babies from Romsey Mill Children’s Centre to the Fitzwilliam Museum for an exciting new project: Creative Families. This is a newly-created scheme based on Arts Award which provides a framework for adults and very young children to enjoy and create art together. We began by taking an Art Walk around the…
How Did They Do That? Science and Technology in Ancient Egypt
Designing an interactive Quest for 8-14 year olds We are excited to announce the launch of a new interactive quest for 8-14 year olds based around the sarcophagus lid of Rameses III at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Guided by Amy and her Egyptologist uncle, children are led through a series of simple tasks to help them to understand some of the…
Design Thinking – Designing a new family guide for the Fitzwilliam
What are the right questions to ask when designing a new resource or service? What methods can we use to assist collaborative and creative thinking? Marco Mason, a Marie Curie research fellow at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, has been on placement with the Fitzwilliam Museum to carry out a research and pilot project in which he…
