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Free Family Workshop: Moving Pictures
The Courtauld Gallery
Animate your own comic strip based on the dramatic paintings found in The Courtauld Gallery.
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Free Family Workshop: Going Underground
Somerset House
Chart the turbulent history and changing fortunes of Somerset House through the centuries and build a 3-D model of your discoveries.
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Free Family Workshop: Having a Ball
Somerset House
Explore the history of masked balls and parties at Somerset House, and then bring everything up to date and make a paper costume fit for a modern masquerade.
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Free Family Workshop: Day Dreams
The Courtauld Gallery
Take inspiration from the Michelangelo’s Dream exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery and artists such as Gauguin before painting your own imaginary ‘Dreamscape’.
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Mini Make Believe: Space Race
Learning Centre
It’s the intergalactic Olympics and aliens and spacemen from far and wide have come to compete. Make tentacles and spaceships and at this creative workshop for under 5s.
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Free Family Workshop: Just an Illusion
Somerset House
Discover the dramatic architecture of Somerset House with its many archways, staircases and dazzling views, and create your own artworks with twisting perspectives and optical trickery.
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Free Family Workshop: Raise the Roof
The Courtauld Gallery
Celebrate the Michelangelo’s Dream exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery and try creating ceiling decorations inspired by the Sistine Chapel, and exploring the space above our heads!
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Free Family workshop: House Rules!
Somerset House
Take the challenge to be a junior designer and make a 3-D game based on the history & architecture of Somerset House.
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Holiday Drop-in Workshop: Outline Art - People and Places
Learning Centre
Create amazing 3-D artworks of people or places you know, just using their outlines. How lifelike can you make them?
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Holiday Drop-in Workshop: Outline Art - Plants and Animals
Learning Centre
Create amazing 3-D artworks of people or places you know, just using their outlines. How lifelike can you make them?
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Free Family Workshop: Familiar Features
Learning Centre
Visit our ‘Pick Me Up’ exhibition in the Embankment Galleries to discover more about graphic art and designers, and then try your hand at designing a stylish magazine or comic with your family.
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Free Family Workshop: The Iron Horse
Learning Centre
Discover how to model dynamic foil sculptures of animals and people inspired by artworks in The Courtauld Gallery.
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Mini Make Believe: Underwater World
Learning Centre
Come on an ocean adventure. Create outfits for sea kings and mermaids, discover how to wiggle like a fish and blow colourful bubbles in this creative workshop for under 5s.
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Free Family Workshop: Pen and Ink patterns
Learning Centre
Explore the wonderful properties of pen and ink to create dazzling symmetrical patterns based on the architecture of Somerset House.
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Free Family Workshop: Cosmic Kaleidoscopes
Learning Centre
Take inspiration from colourful abstract paintings in The Courtauld Gallery and design your own vibrant kaleidoscopes.
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Free Family Workshop: A New Perspective
Learning Centre
Join us for a workshop using the dramatic views of Somerset House to learn how to make people and places look near or far away in space and your drawings appear 3-D!
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Free Family Workshop: Wet Wash
Learning Centre
Paint your own watercolour landscapes of rivers, lakes and seas, and discover how to make washes of colour to create a ‘wet’ effect, as artists in the past have done.
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Holiday Drop-in Workshop: Pop-up to London!
Learning Centre
Impress your friends and family by making a pop-up version of your favourite view of London; what fabulous site will you choose?
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