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The majority of museums in London have extra resources for children and they range from pretty poor 'trails'/paper-based games to interactive talks and workshop
by kingosticks 11y ago
The majority of museums in London have extra resources for children and they range from pretty poor 'trails'/paper-based games to interactive talks and workshops targeted at particular age groups. What you get highly depends on the people in charge at the particular institution. The goal of these resources is to facilitate alternative interpretations to allow people of all ages to appreciate the collection (and make maximum use of the funding). The idea that all people, even across the same age group, interpret art in the same way is wrong; the idea that one interpretation is better or more right than another is also wrong. Fortunately there are now numerous ways to enjoy museums and galleries and to 'drag' a child around is unlikely to be one of them. Surely that's obvious.
- germinalphrase 11y agoThis idea of paper-based games is nice, but I hope they are slightly more involved than [can you find five pictures with a donkey in them]. It would be great (particularly at museums that focus on science, industry, etc.) if these games implicitly motivated young people to draw connections between different realms of knowledge. For instance, the connection between transportation and resource extraction is obvious to adults, but a young person may find it helpful if a paper-based game motivated them to consider how the cool steam engines connect with the coal mining exhibit.