Visiting as a Family
Your Visit
To prepare you for your visit see our pages on Access and Facilities, and Getting Here.
- Our family activities are held in our large ground floor room, called The Space.
- Meet the Play and Learn facilitators before you arrive.
- There is a designated sensory area in family workshops.
- Adult and child noise reducing headphones are available on request from reception and in our activities in The Space.
- We have a Changing Places facility.
- There are family toilet seats, and step stools in our toilets.
- We are a Breastfeeding Welcome venue.
- All our Play & Learn Facilitators hold a current DBS certificate.
- All our Play & Learn Facilitators have regular safeguarding training.
- We have staff on duty who are First Aid at Work, and Paediatric First Aid trained.
- We are a member of the Family Arts Campaign and part of the local Nottingham Network group with our cultural friends.
- Find out about our current exhibitions, self-led activities and sensory bags to be used in our galleries.
- Our Gallery Assistants are on hand to support a happy and safe environment. Please help by listening to their guidance and let them know if you need any assistance or guidance during your visit.
- We ask for you not to take food and drink inside the exhibitions, however you are more than welcome to have your snacks and drinks if attending our Family Activities in The Space.
- Find out more about accesssibilty here.
Give What You Can
Entry to our exhibitions, events, fairs and our family activities is free but we need your support. Your donations make it possible to keep doing everything we do: from our world-leading exhibitions to our activities for families, young people and schools. With your support we can continue making a difference to the cultural, educational and social life of Nottingham and the East Midlands.
Please support us with a donation and register for Gift Aid to add 25% at no extra cost to you.