Cultural Learning Directory
Find the right cultural partner to support your class’s learning objectives
London Transport Museum: Sensory Horse Bus
Discover what it was like to travel through the streets of Victorian London on a horse-drawn bus. In this fun, 30-minute, multi-sensory storytelling session led by a specialist facilitator, your learners can travel back in time and explore the joys and challenges of the 1870’s horse bus.
London Transport Museum: Coding the Capital
In this hands-on session students will code trains for their own capital city, completing a series of challenges. This session builds your students’ problem-solving skills by working on real world problems facing transport engineers.
London Transport Museum: Platform Promenade
Step inside our time-travelling machine and set off on an investigative journey through the Museum galleries. Discover how vehicles have changed over time and the fascinating ways people have travelled from A to B in this lively actor led session. This session can also be booked for Reception
London Transport Museum: Carribean Journeys
Join us for an immersive story telling session uncovering how Caribbean culture has shaped the city in which we live. From conductor to engineer, learn about the diverse and inspirational careers of London Transport’s Caribbean workforce.
London Transport Museum: Joe’s Busy Bus
Join Joe Clough, our magical museum custodian and London’s first black bus driver, on a time travelling actor-led adventure through the Museum galleries. Piecing together mysterious clues left by passengers on Joe’s bus, your class will get up close and personal with the Museum’s collection.
London Transport Museum: Is This The Way Home?
Join the mission to help Monty the Mole find his way home. Enjoy exclusive access to our historic vehicles and discover how travel in London has changed since we relied on horse-power to keep our city moving. This session can also be booked for Reception.
Creative Futures: The Word
Whether you want to put on a Poetry Slam or a more reflective poetry project, we have numerous spoken word artists on our books who are experienced in delivering inspiring and thought-provoking poetry and spoken word workshops. Projects can be linked to (e.g.) specific curriculum themes, milestone events or Year 6 transition and can conclude with outputs such as a printed anthology or performance event.
The Cartoon Museum: Spider Potato
A special session for early years children, where they draw some famous superhero faces and then create a silly superhero and draw it onto a blank Marvel-style comic cover.
The Cartoon Museum: World War I & II in Cartoons
Which World War II cartoonist wound up on Hitler’s ‘Death List’ and why? Who changed the look of British cartoons with his propaganda posters? Who had the funniest moustache, Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler?
The Cartoon Museum: Caricatures
Explore caricatures in the museum’s collection – from the 18th century to the present day - and learn how to simply draw funny portraits of some famous people.
The Cartoon Museum: Superheroes
Create their own costumed adventurer and a dastardly villain, and draw them in action onto a Marvel-style front cover.
The Cartoon Museum: Create A Comic Strip
Design your own character, practise drawing them from different viewpoints, and use a simple narrative structure to write and draw a one-page comic-strip story.