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

How to apply

The programme this year offers £4,000 (eight grants of £500) to London’s non-national, non-NPO museums in 2024–2025. 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 2025.

The programme for this year is being generously funded by Art Fund.

This grant will reopen from April 2025 for a new round of applications

Current grants

In 2024–2025, the grant is funding 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

Projects will be completed by March 2025 and detailed case studies will be available from April 2025 onwards.

Previous grants

2023–2024

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
Family Friendly 2023–2024 summary report

PDF: 1.6 MB

Read detailed case summaries about the projects, completed in March 2024.

2019–2020

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)
Family Friendly 2019–2020 summary report

PDF: 1.4 MB

Read detailed case summaries about the projects, completed in February 2020.

Supported by

Art Fund