Learning at Leighton House Museum

Adult Learning

The COMMUNITY ACCESS SCHEME is a programme for adult and family community voluntary groups / charities, informal education or wellbeing support providers based local to Leighton House Museum. We are particularly interested in engaging with groups that do not visit museums regularly but could benefit from this new programme through admission free of charge and access to our permanent collection, stories and historical spaces in a way that is meaningful and relevant to the groups.

We will provide a free one-day training to the Community Groups Leaders to encourage and support them to lead visits of their group to the museum.

To find out more about the scheme please contact our Community Engagement Officer, Jana Haragalova on jana.haragalova@rbkc.gov.uk

Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

Schools

Leighton House is the former studio home of one of the most celebrated British artists of the nineteenth-century, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830 – 1896), President of the Royal Academy 1878-1896.  The building is situated in picturesque Holland Park Road (Kensington), and was once one of a number of houses owned by distinguished artists settled in the area, a group centred around Leighton and his friend and contemporary, George Frederick Watts (1817 – 1904).  One of just two  purpose-built studio-houses open to the public in the United Kingdom, it is one of the most remarkable buildings of the nineteenth century, containing a fascinating collection of paintings and sculpture by Leighton and his contemporaries.

The Museum offers a vibrant programme of curriculum relevant and complementary taught workshops, activities and tours which extend and inspire learning.

To find out more about our schools programme please contact our Learning Officer, Charlotte Villiers on charlotte.villiers@rbkc.gov.uk

Rich cross-curricular links can be made across the Key Stages with Art & Design, Design & Technology, History, Literacy, Maths and Citizenship whilst exploring this unique and remarkable house, and its permanent collection.

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