Audience engagement is a two-way interaction between you and your audience. Engaging experiences provoke emotional responses in people, and get people actively participating, talking about and sharing their experiences, as well as inspiring them to want to find out more.
Our blog is written by practitioners, for practitioners, to reflect on what research into STEM engagement means for our day-to-day practice.
Early years children are an integral part of our museum audience, and we know that positive and inclusive STEM experiences in childhood set a good path to engage with science throughout life. Here we share some of our top tips for developing early years experiences that support STEM learning.
By Alice White
Exploring Science Through Play – Developing a new training course for early years educators
Alice White interviews Beth Hawkins and Madeline Stanley on the development of our new Academy course ‘Exploring Science Through Play’ for early years practitioners.
Families are our most common type of visitor, making up around 60% of our visitors across our sites. Here we share some of our top tips and considerations for engaging families.
Knowledge, attitudes and experiences around science begin to form from early childhood. Naomi Hayward shares the value and challenges of including young children from deprived backgrounds in research to help us develop accessible, engaging and empowering learning resources.
What happens when a museum Learning team can’t work in their museum? Emma Hart, Schools and Families Producer at the National Science and Media Museum (NSMM) shares her experience of the ‘Visiting You’ outreach programme and why she hopes it will continue for years to come.
Our Wonderlab+ website launched at the end of 2022, providing SMG with its first online destination designed especially for families with low to medium science capital. Here are 5 things that we’ve learned (so far) about how audiences are using the website.
Sophie Nicoll shares our experiences of developing a new interactive “Explore it, Make it”, designed to engage audiences with our collection.
The Science Museum Group are working on a collaborative research project which explores how to support early years audiences with science objects in our museums. Madeline Stanley reflects on the work so far and on the importance of play in early years learning and object engagement.
Museums and other informal learning environments provide an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the applications of maths, and to highlight how it influences our everyday lives. Here we share some of our top tips for exploring maths in museums.
In this first in a series of blogs on our nationwide Science In Your World programme, Kate Davis and Pete Jeffrey-Bourne introduce the programme and outline our first exciting steps.
In this out and about blog, Rachel Emmerson and Alice White, Science Museum Group Academy and Resources Developers, visited the Discover Children’s Story Centre in Stratford, London.