Museums Storytelling
for kids
Explore 10 trusted museums storytelling resources selected for curious kids, with clear ages, access details, and parent context.
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Getty If Objects Could Talk
Getty’s If Objects Could Talk is a family podcast in which art and artifacts from the Getty collection tell imaginative stories about their histories, materials, makers, and uses. Episodes include transcripts and related activities.
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Baltimore Museum of Art Family Activities
Baltimore Museum of Art’s family page combines free online art activities, family programmes, visit tips, and open-ended prompts that help children and adults look closely, tell stories, and make art together.
Discovery Museum: Lost in the Toy Museum!
A museum learning workshop for EYFS and KS1 groups that combines story, a toy hunt, object handling, and making a Victorian toy.
The Wallace Collection Family Events
A free family program in London offering interactive tours, storytelling, art workshops, multisensory sessions, and hands-on activities connected to the Wallace Collection.
Guggenheim Bilbao Learning Online
Guggenheim Bilbao’s Learning Online collection provides museum-led art courses, artist workshops, child-focused art videos, and English storytelling for creative learning at home.
Woodmere Family Art & Storytelling
Woodmere Museum family programs pair close looking, picture-book storytelling, and hands-on artmaking for young children and their grown-ups.
Walt Disney Family Museum Virtual Field Trips
The Walt Disney Family Museum offers virtual tours and workshops about animation, storytelling, design, and Walt Disney’s creative legacy for school groups.
Worcester Art Museum Family Artmaking Workshops
Family artmaking workshops at Worcester Art Museum connect children and caregivers with museum learning and hands-on making; the December 2026 schedule includes Scales and Tales, Tiger Puppet Guardians, and Sculpting the Monkey King.
Queens Museum Drop-in Family Programs
Queens Museum family programmes invite children and caregivers to explore exhibitions through free drop-in art-making, storytelling, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and ArtAccess workshops.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Digital Learning
The MFA Boston’s digital learning collection provides art activities for children and families, age-labelled home programs, storytelling, studio tutorials, videos, and art connections cards.
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