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Thanks to everyone who came to the Artist Residency celebration last night at Kensington! It was such a lovely evening and great to see so many people there. It was the perfect way to end a fantastic residency and also to thank Natalie Ryde for all her hard work over the last year. For more [...]
This Easter, to celebrate the representation of the Crown Jewels and HM The Queen’s Jubilee year, families created and designed their own crowns and discovered the stories and secrets of some of the famous jewels in the collection. Again we were very busy with an average of 400 children a day taking part in the [...]
We have been busy here at the Clore Learning Centre at Hampton Court Palace making hangers for door handles inspired by some of Henry VIII’s favourite animals. You can make a yale, a dragon or a lion and write a message or draw a picture on their shield. Messages telling little sisters to “Keep Out” [...]
From wild and wonderful wallpaper, cabinets of curiosities and beautiful wood carvings, Kensington has everything to peak your curiosity and ignite your imagination. We’re looking for artists to create some craft/ making activities for our visitors at Kensington Palace to support our public programme of events. Kensington Palace has recently re-launched after a £12m transformation [...]
We’ve just finished a really lovely 10 days of family learning activities at Kensington Palace as part of our easter holidays offer. We made Victoria and Albert puppets, drew portraits of Victoria and Albert at different stages of their lives, made crowns and took part in storytelling in Victoria’s bedroom. All these took place in our [...]
Two weeks ago we visited Jigsaw nursery for our first bunting workshop, and today we returned for the second and final time. Swapping stamping for sticking, and rollers for ribbons we set about creating even more flags for our Jubilee decorations. The group let their imaginations run wild, producing some beautiful, vibrant designs. These will now [...]
Historic Royal Palaces works with the Prince’s Drawing School to run a branch of the organisation’s Young Artists Programme, and on Saturday the group visited the Banqueting House at Whitehall for the very first time. There, in a session led by the Drawing School’s tutors, the group made sketches (above) of the building’s groundbreaking architecture [...]
Avid blog readers will know that at Kensington we are busily making 500 unique, handmade bunting flags for our ‘Jubilee - a view from the crowd’ exhibition, opening in May. So far we have enlisted the help of carers and youth panel members to help us reach our target, and today it was the turn of [...]
Like our colleagues at Hampton Court Palace, we were very busy during half term last week with a fantastic range of family learning activities in the Medieval Palace. Visitors enjoyed a range of medieval-themed fun all week and over the week we had an astounding 2,600 children making hats, helmets, badges, and stained-glass windows, as [...]
Half term is in full swing at Hampton Court Palace. As it has just been Valentine’s day, we are exploring the story of Margaret Douglas and her 3 boyfriends. Margaret was Henry VIII’s niece, and he didn’t always agree with her choice of suitor. Come along and make a mood mask (showing a happy face and [...]