Museum Education
Our aim is to encourage as many different audiences as possible to enjoy the rich collections of the Art Gallery & Museum.
We welcome visitors with young children and offer free discovery sheets, gallery trails and special drop-in activity days.
We lead workshops for schools, tailor-made to enrich and support the national curriculu
m in lively, meaningful and accessible ways. You can download our brochure Come and enjoy the Learning Power of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (PDF Format). These workshops, which give children an exciting hands-on learning experience, have helped to earn Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum a prestigious Learning outside the Classroom Quality Badge.
We plan programmes of practical workshops to help children and adults explore and develop their creative skills. You can download our information sheets and Working with Secondary Schools showing the subjects we cover.
A new joint initiative between Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum and the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway is a World War II Evacuation Experience. For details, please click here.
We can take collections out to local residental homes and day centres to inspire conversation and shared memories.
If you want to know more about our work in these areas please contact Faye Little and Sandra Ashenford, Museum Education & Outreach Officers. Tel: 01242 775702 or 01242 237431.
The following are examples of work recently undertaken by our Education and Outreach department:
Object Detectives brings ICT-rich activities to young teens, inspired by a wonderful mixture of items from leading museums in the South West of England, including Cheltenham.
Stilton Towers is the Art Gallery & Museum’s in-house movie! Meet Morris Mouse when he pays a visit to the museum to have tea with Clara and Rosa, the museum’s resident mice. Look out for their mouse hole in the Stay and Play area!
Dinosaurs
This artwork, on display in our shop window on Clarence Street, was created by children from Gloucester Road Primary School, working with Lisa Yardley, a Bristol-based artist who inspired them to construct this dinosaur and background from scrap materials. The project was undertaken to promote the BBC Walking with Dinosaurs exhibition now showing at the Art Gallery & Museum until 15 August.