Museum Workshop

Mindfulness

🔍 Discover and Explore

A visit to a museum or art gallery is a rich and safe environment to acknowledge and support our mental wellbeing. Join us at National Museum Cardiff to discover calm, creativity and connection in this interactive workshop. Set within the Museum’s inspiring art galleries, this session encourages learners to slow down, explore their senses and engage with the collection in thoughtful and reflective ways.

✏️ Take Part

Learners will be led through a number of mindful activities throughout the art galleries. They will have the opportunity to develop visual thinking strategies and experience creative mindfulness activities in a totally unique environment.  

 ℹ️ About This Session

Learners will be encouraged to engage with their senses. Please let us know when you are booking if you have any pupils that would be sensitive to these experiences, and we will do our best to make everyone feel comfortable!

Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Led by Museum staff - £40 for up to 15 pupils, £60 for up to 35. Free for some schools (see booking information).

Curriculum

Expressive Arts

  • Exploring the expressive arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables learners to become curious and creative individuals.
  • Responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the expressive arts.
  • Creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination.

Health and Wellbeing 

  • Developing physical health and well-being has lifelong benefits. 
  • How we process and respond to our experiences affects our mental health and emotional well-being.
  • How we engage with social influences shapes who we are and affects our health and well-being. 

 Language, Literacy and Communication 

  • Expressing ourselves through languages is key to communication.  

 Cross-curricular skills and integral skills  

  • Creativity and innovation 
  • Personal effectiveness
A young man looking as a display of photographs in a museum
A school taking part in an activity in an art gallery
National Museum Cardiff

Booking information

To make a booking and talk to someone about this session phone (029) 2057 3240 or email educationmail@museumwales.ac.uk