A good tour can enhance a visitors’ experience, providing face-to-face contact and unique insights into a range of fascinating subjects. Here we share some of our top tips for how to create and deliver memorable and engaging tours.
By Alice White
Exploring Science Through Play – Developing a new training course for early years educators
Alice White interviews Beth Hawkins and Madeline Stanley on the development of our new Academy course ‘Exploring Science Through Play’ for early years practitioners.
What happens when a museum Learning team can’t work in their museum? Emma Hart, Schools and Families Producer at the National Science and Media Museum (NSMM) shares her experience of the ‘Visiting You’ outreach programme and why she hopes it will continue for years to come.
We have just launched Wonderlab+, the first ever website specially designed for children and families from The Science Museum Group. Wonderlab+ showcases our games, videos and hands-on activities, as well as offering a new way to interact in the form of quizzes.
Jess Sashaw, SMG Academy Programme Leader, shares her experience of developing a webinar to support library communities with the Summer Reading Challenge theme of Gadgeteers.
We experience the world through a combination of what we can see, hear, smell, feel and taste. Sassy Holmes, Associate Interactive Gallery Curator for the National Railway Museum, delves into the importance of exploring all of the senses when creating inclusive community engagement.
What does a science capital informed approach look like in practice? The Science Capital in Practice: Foundations for the Future seminar brought together ideas, experiences, and advice around applying a science capital approach in museums and science centres.
In part two of our Science Capital in Practice: Foundations for the future blog series, we explore what the programme partners learned about sharing the science capital approach with their colleagues across their organisation.
In part one of our Science Capital in Practice: Foundations for the Future blog series, we explore how taking a science capital approach has helped partner organisations to build and broaden their audiences.
We talk about engagement a lot in our work, it is at the heart of everything that we do and we use it to describe and measure the value and benefit of our experiences. However, it can be a hard word to define. Beth Hawkins explores ‘what exactly do we mean when we talk about engagement?’.
Maxwell Hamilton describes how we challenged ourselves to reflect on the everyday examples, and the language we used in content we created for BBC Bitesize Daily as part of Science Week. He shares how we worked to make the content relevant to the audience of at home students.
Our Great Object Hunts invite people to follow their curiosity and find everyday examples and applications of STEM both in and beyond our museums. Charlotte Pike, resources Learning Producer shares why these are such a popular activity, and the work that goes into developing them.