A nursery and two primary schools have been temporarily based full time at their local museum as part of a research project to test whether there may be beneficial learning, social and cultural outcomes for children and their families.
The My Primary School is at the Museum project is taking 130 nursery and primary school children directly into museums for their day-to-day programmes of lessons with the aim of offering a fundamentally different experience from the more usual occasional museum visit.
The idea for the project was conceived by Wendy James, partner of Garbers & James, an architectural practice specialising in the public cultural sector.
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