β: This is a Beta release of the Fitzwilliam Museum's potential new website.
We want to co-design
our Virtual Museum presence with you.
You can return to our current site at any time.
Following the Government announcement yesterday, museums and galleries in Cambridge will be closed to the public as part of a period of national/local restrictions. So, with great sadness, we will not be able to reopen as planned on 2 January 2021.
September 2019–May 2020
Funded by Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme
This collaborative action research project builds on the 2017 UCM Nursery in Residency to work with Playlanders, a local community playgroup. The project explores how young children develop meaningful connections with the Museum through respeated visits over the course of a term. Educators from the Museum and the playgroup will work together to plan, deliver, and document what happens during these visits and beyond. As part of this process they will consider how best to support young children visiting the Museum to pursue their own interests and respond in a variety of ways. The research will support the development and testing of innovative methodologies for practitioner research with young children in museums, as well as supporting the development of professional learning and community engagement.
