Join us to explore how family and community programmes can shape a wider, radical welcome, deepen partnerships and exemplify care practices in museums.

Museums across the world are challenging themselves, moving away from being temples of culture to evaluating themselves as a shared civic resource. This can mean reimagining and critically challenging what the welcome is, embedding their vision into every aspect of the museum’s functioning, and exploring the different practices of care that exists through learning and engagement programmes. This study day will explore some successful models of welcome and care from Tate Britain that have been inclusive, participatory and reimagined engagement for families and community groups.

Through the day you will engage with case studies that have redesigned participation, engagement and understanding of audiences in the museum. These case studies will focus on family audiences, borough specific engagement with community groups and a wider local and global offer for communities across London. We invite participants to reflect on their own practices of care and welcome in their respective fields.

People will leave with:

• An introduction and understanding of different models and approaches to community learning and care.
• A sense of their own practice when it comes to intergenerational community learning
• An opportunity to think about and design their own community/family learning intervention

Who Cares? Practising Intergenerational Care and Going Beyond Engagement in Museums and Galleries
Study Day, 27 April, Central London
Led by Ruchika Gurung and Jean Tormey

About the Workshop Leaders

Jean Tormey is Curator of Early Years and Families at Tate with experience in different museum/ gallery scales and contexts, including Tate Liverpool, Whitechapel Gallery and Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. With a background in art history and arts management, in recent years, Jean has brought her interest in how the principles of therapeutic play can be applied to intergenerational, child-led creative learning in galleries, to her role.

Ruchika Gurung is Curator of Community and Partnerships at Tate, championing participatory and creative models of engagement. Over a decade Ruchika has worked in community and educational spaces, exploring dialogic gathering and making as pedagogical approaches. She has led on community engagement for the legacies of empire and enslavement project at the University of Cambridge Museums and taught Media and Cultural Studies in universities in India and the UK.

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.