Family Friendly

The grants enable museums to make their galleries, cafes, facilities, activities, marketing and social media more family friendly and accessible.

This year’s programme will enable museums to use the Kids in Museums Manifesto as a development tool to create a more permanent welcoming offer to children, families and young people by March 2026.

Applications for our 2025–2026 funding round has now closed.

This grant will reopen from April 2026 for a new round of applications.

In 2025–2026 the grant is funding the following museums:

• Burgh House
• Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
• Florence Nightingale Museum
• Headstone Manor and Museum
• Keats House
• Kelmscott House
• Kempton Steam Museum
• Museum of Richmond

Projects will be completed by March 2026 and detailed case studies will be available from June 2026 onwards.

The grants funded the following museums:

• Bentley Priory Museum
• Havering Museum
• Headstone Manor and Museum
• Household Cavalry Museum
• Kingston Museum
• Markfield Beam Engine
• Museum of Richmond
• Museum of Wimbledon
• World Rugby Museum

The grants funded the following museums:

• Charles Dickens Museum
• Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Freud Museum
• Jozef Pilsudski Institute of London
• Kingston Museum
• Museum of Richmond
• Museum of the Order of St John
• Society of Antiquaries

The grants funded the following museums:

• Association of Anaesthetists (Anaesthetists' Heritage Centre)
• Brent Museum and Archives
• Bruce Castle Museum
• Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
• John Wesley’s House and the Museum of Methodism
• London Museum of Water and Steam
• The Musical Museum
• Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
• The William Morris Society (Kelmscott House)