How can museums build meaningful, long-term relationships with young people? This interactive study day explores innovative strategies, practical tools, and fresh thinking to help you shape more inclusive and impactful youth engagement programmes.

Together, we’ll unpack what ‘youth engagement’ really means in today’s museum context and consider how trust, care, and advocacy underpin effective practice. The workshop will explore how museums can ensure young people’s voices, especially those from marginalised or underrepresented communities, are authentically reflected, and how that representation can spark lasting organisational change.

Through a mix of presentations, discussion, and practical exercises, you’ll:

• Explore best practices through a variety of case studies and real-world examples of successful youth engagement projects and the lessons learned from them.

• Engage in hands-on, practice-based activities and exercises designed to help you translate ideas into action within your own museum.

• Collaborate and reflect in small-group discussions that encourage open exchange and peer support.

• Leave with an actionable plan and equipped with concrete ideas and approaches to develop or refine your youth engagement work.

Transforming Youth Engagement in Your Museum
Study Day, Tuesday 12 January 2027, Central London
Led by Dhiyandra Natalegawa

About the Workshop Leader

Dhiyandra Natalegawa is an Indonesian Creative Educator and Producer, born and raised in Brent, London. Over the past decade, she has championed art education as a powerful tool for social change, designing and leading programmes that can raise the aspirations, creative confidence, and inclusive experience of underserved communities. With support from Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice grant, Dhiyandra has explored alternative, ethical ways to co-design community art projects and programmes through collaboration. This work informed her collaborations with Somerset House, Art Night, Artangel, and London Museum, creating frameworks for meaningful participation by young people, families, and schools. Dhiyandra was Programme Producer in the Learning and Digital team at the V&A before recently taking up the new position of Programme Manager for the Inclusive Talent Engagement at Somerset House. 

Book Tickets

Click ‘Select options’ below to book your place on the study day. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from £137 – £177. Book with colleagues for multiple delegate discounts. Book your ticket online below or email info@museum-id.com if you prefer to be invoiced.

Want to join us for several study days? You can save with our 2027 Study Day Ticket Bundle.

20% of tickets are available at a reduced rate for museum workers who may often be excluded from training and professional development opportunities, including people of colour, LGBTQ+ members of staff, students, freelancers, and those working at small independent museums. Reduced rate tickets are £97 – email info@museum-id.com to check availability and to book a ticket at the reduced rate.

Tickets are non-refundable but may be swapped between colleagues at the same organisation and between different study days (if places are available). If the workshop is postponed, your ticket remains valid for the rescheduled date.