Art Education

Group Visits

For school and post-16 group visits, each museum can offer a range of art-focused sessions and resources. 

Booking is essential for all visiting groups, including self-guided visits. Please contact individual collections to make bookings.

Interactive Sketchbooks

Museum Sketchbooks is a digital resource to support art and design students develop their sketchbook-based research skills.

The interactive website was built primarily with students aged 14-16 in mind to complement a 'sketchbook introduction' to a museum visit. The aim of the project was to make the museums' example sketchbooks accessible to students and teachers as a resource pre and post visit, and to utilise the ability of digital to 'layer' content so that students can examine more deeply the composition of the sketchbooks and dig into additional resources about the featured collections.

The site provides four sketchbooks, one inspired by each of the museums, showing the types of information that students might collect whilst on a visit, and examples of how they might bring these together as a coherent sketchbook page. The sketchbooks are high resolution, allowing for deep zoom, and are overlaid with 'hotspots' that the student can trigger to open in a lightbox. Museum education officers use these hotspots to provide information about the composition of the page, tips to students on creating their own pages, and links to further resources about the collections to support students in developing their critical understanding of artists, techniques and materials.