Family Learning Groups

Our programme provides family learning and community groups with opportunities to engage in creative activities with the museum, either through outreach sessions at schools or community venues or through attending workshops at the Geffrye. The programme provides informal learning opportunities inspired by our themes, collections and gardens. Through working together families gain new knowledge, skills, and experiences, build relationships with each other and with the museum and, perhaps most importantly, have fun together. 

We have also worked on special projects with family groups: activities have included designing and making big banners at Randall Cremer School as part of the Big Draw, and decorating a ping pong table as part of Ping London.

For Ping London families from the Morningside Children’s Centre worked together with artist Linda Hoetink to create the decoration for a ping pong table. Families explored what dining tables have been used for such as eating, entertaining and playing games such as ping pong. During the rest of the project families created drawings and paintings inspired by objects found on the tables in our period rooms. They even drew in our gardens and made flower pressings. The project took place over five weeks and was part of a year-long partnership with the Morningside Children’s Centre.

The table formed part of the Ping London initiative where ping pong tables were placed in different venues across the Capital for a month. Visitors to the museum were able to play on the finished work which originally was a dining room table.

For more information please see the programme or contact Assistant Education Officer: Sarah Fairbairn: sfairbairn@geffrye-museum.org.uk