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Renaissance NW Early Years & Family Learning Network

Museums involved:

Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Museum

Museum of Lancashire
Museum of Science and Industry
National Football Museum 
People’s History Museum
Preston Hands on Gang
Queen’s Lancashire Regimental Museum
Ribble Steam Railway
Tullie House Museum
Whitworth Art Gallery

External partnerships include Children's Services: SureStart, Manchester City Council, Manchester Adult Education Service, NIACE.

The aim of the partnerships is to:

* Develop Early Years and Family Learning within museum and gallery settings
* Offer training and development opportunities to museum staff and early years and family learning practitioners
* Involve parents as partners in Early Learning programmes
* Develop understanding and clear definitions of family friendly, family engagement and family learning within museums and galleries
* Develop and share transferable delivery techniques, products and services 

 

Learning Programmes:

Activities and events to develop active engagement and learning between child and parent/carer
Explorer sessions: Animals/ Dinosaurs

Explorer sacks for self programmed visits
Art Gallery sessions: Once Upon a Time, Exploring Senses, Musical Movers 
'Hands on Gang' are five characters (finger puppets) that have been created to represent the five museums in Preston.  They are used specifically to market the museums as welcoming to families.  In addition, there are Hands on Gang branded activities at each museum to involve all the family.