Cultural Learning Directory
Find the right cultural partner to support your class’s learning objectives
The Cartoon Museum: Young Cartoonist Awards 2024
The Young Cartoonist Awards 2024 are now open to anyone under the age of 30 who is resident in the UK. We are accepting submissions of gag cartoons, political cartoons and short strip cartoons. We are looking for a wide range of cartoonists from different regions within the UK, and with different backgrounds.
Tate Britain: Teachers Private View
We welcome teachers to join us for this after-hours social event, especially designed for teachers. Enjoy free entry to The 80s Photographing Britain exhibition, looking at photography in a decade of political and social change in the UK.
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation: Artist Studio Visits & Exhibition Guided Tours
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation is a charitable arts organisation spanning four sites across London. We provide the public with opportunities to engage with contemporary art through a diverse range of activities, including art exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, poetry evenings, music performances, talks, and other cultural events.
The Courtauld: Learning workshops and Tours
The Courtauld offers free Learning opportunities for schools, colleges and young people to explore the dynamic subject of art history and engage in lively discussion and creative activity.
The Cartoon Museum: Spider Potato
A special session for early years children, where they draw some famous superhero faces and then create a silly superhero and draw it onto a blank Marvel-style comic cover.
The Cartoon Museum: World War I & II in Cartoons
Which World War II cartoonist wound up on Hitler’s ‘Death List’ and why? Who changed the look of British cartoons with his propaganda posters? Who had the funniest moustache, Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler?
The Cartoon Museum: Caricatures
Explore caricatures in the museum’s collection – from the 18th century to the present day - and learn how to simply draw funny portraits of some famous people.
The Cartoon Museum: Superheroes
Create their own costumed adventurer and a dastardly villain, and draw them in action onto a Marvel-style front cover.
The Cartoon Museum: Create A Comic Strip
Design your own character, practise drawing them from different viewpoints, and use a simple narrative structure to write and draw a one-page comic-strip story.
Wallace Collection: SEND Programme
Discover amazing armour, encounter a sensory landscape, or explore powerful portraits through free museum visits and outreach sessions for SEND students.
Wallace Collection: Visits and Workshops for Secondary Schools
Interactive museum visits and online sessions designed for KS3-5, connecting students with artists, writers, and historians.
Wallace Collection: Visits and Workshops for Primary Schools
Connect with The Wallace Collection’s world-class art collection through interactive museum visits and online sessions designed for KS1-2.
Serpentine: Self-Guided Group Visits
A free, pre-booked school visit to Serpentine where you and your students can independently explore at your own pace.
Royal Academy of Arts: Young Artists' Summer Show
An annual, free, open submission exhibition for young artists aged 4–19 years studying in the UK.
Royal Academy of Arts: Self-Guided Exhibition Visits
The Royal Academy welcome self-guided visits to their temporary exhibitions.
Royal Academy of Arts: Primary School Workshops
The Royal Academy's primary school workshops are thematic, cross-curricular and revolve around the creative thinking process.
The Cartoon Museum: This Is Us
Unique workshops for schools and groups with SEND/neurodiverse young people, designed with an Austism specialist teacher