Fitzwilliam Museum Education Department

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Beautiful drawing by Olivia (aged 5), who was inspired by her visit to the Beggarstaffs exhibition at It’s Magic this week.

Babies and the Beggarstaffs exhibition! Families have been exploring the exhibition through rhymes, exploratory play and creating their own artworks. We love to see what fascinates little ones at the Museum.

Today we introduced young visitors to the Beggarstaffs exhibition, using a reworked story of Cinderella: who needs a fairy godmother when you can make things yourself?! In the art studio we explored collage and printing techniques and created some fantastic pieces inspired by what we had seen.

If you are coming to the Museum for Family First Saturday tomorrow leave your cars at home and walk or cycle instead. We hope to see you 2-4pm for free family activities: https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/…/what son/family-first-sat…

Family Filming Opportunity for families with children age 5-7 and transport info for Family First Saturday - https://mailchi.mp/37176c6cebcd/family-fi lming-opportunity

This amazing bird was made during an Early Years workshop at the Museum this morning. The young artist thought that other visitors might want to see it too - what do you think?

Family First Saturday 6 July, 2-4pm, FREE - https://mailchi.mp/f7d8edca2bb9/family-fi rst-saturday-6-july

Today was the final session of our Creative Families course. We explored the Impressionist Gallery with songs, movement and sensory resources before making colourful paintings of our own. We hope these young visitors will be back at the Museum again soon!

Teen artists join us at the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of ReSource and Make! with guest artist Caroline Wendling, Saturday 15 June, to take a conceptual travel through time across the world known to Renaissance artists. Using copies of historic maps our young artists followed in the footsteps of journey men and women from North, Central and Southern Europe to see the ancient artefacts of ancient Cyprus, Greece and Rome in our museum galleries. Recording their findings in thei...r handmade sketchbooks using ink and graphite. What beautiful drawings and a great piece of research, thank you everyone at the session and to Caroline of Wysing Arts Centre Whitechapel Gallery Caroline Wendling
And we wish our colleague Ellie Sparrow so many thanks for her wonderful support of these Saturday workshops and wish her all the best. - Thanks Ellie!
The next ReSource and Make! sessions Saturday 13 July guest artist Iona McCUaig - 'Open studio' create your own art works using our resources and studio. book your ticket email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
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Money, power and politics explored by our artists group Muse with a visit to our exhibition 'Making a Nation' and introduction talk by the curator and assistant keeper of coins and medals Dr Richard Kelleher. In the studio we designed our own contemporary bank notes in ink on paper. Richard then revisited to see out new money and showed a coin and note collection that have been altered to make a statement or comment, plus the artists catalogue from the exhibition 'Cash is King'.One of the contributing artists, Hello the Mushroom facilitated a workshop early this year at the Femme Late.
Have fun identifying our gentle parody's of contemporary world affairs. Many thanks to Muse artists and Richard Kelleher.

Today we have had children from Brunswick Nursery School visiting the Museum. We explored colours through storytelling with art objects, playdough circuits, stop motion animation and play with light and shadows.

It's Children's Art Week & we were delighted to continue with our Creative Families course with The Fields Children Centre We shared the story of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and used clay to make our own tea cups.

Thank you to all the families that participated in our #ChildrensArtWeek workshops with local artist Kelly Briggs. Check out our website for upcoming children and family events: https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/learning /family.