At the British Museum, primary school kids are taking over the Families Desk, helping families to find out what’s on offer for them. Also, students from Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children are supporting Visitor Services staff as they show… Read more

Deadline for entries – Monday February 1, 2017 Winner’s ceremony – Wednesday May 17, 2017, 8 Northumberland Avenue, London The Categories for the 2017 Awards include: Temporary or Touring Exhibition Educational Initiative sponsored by schoolzone Project on a Limited Budget… Read more

How would you sum up Takeover day? Takeover Day is a celebration of children and young people’s contribution to museums, art galleries, archives, libraries, arts organisations and heritage sites. It’s a day on which they are given meaningful, powerful and… Read more

The report, The Impact of heritage tourism for the UK economy 2016, shows that Overseas visitor spend on heritage trips totalled £7.4 bn in 2015 – 42 per cent of the total  £17.5 bn spend made by visitors… Read more

Built less than a decade after the word robot was first used, Eric was everything we now imagine a robot to be – a talking, moving mechanical person, says curator Ben Russell, and amazed crowds across the UK, Europe and… Read more