Working with museums
We love working with museums and cultural organisations. Animation gives children and young people a different way to explore a collection or exhibition, giving them the chance to look closely, ask questions and use what they discover as the starting point for something of their own.
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We work with museums to develop workshops that respond directly to their collections, exhibitions and stories, using stop motion, filmmaking, model making, drawing and storytelling. Our sessions are practical and hands-on, with children learning new creative and technical skills while producing their own work.
The Design museum
We work with the Design Museum in London, delivering stopmotion Design Camps for children and young people.
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In 2026, our workshops ran alongside Wes Anderson: The Archives. The exhibition gave children the opportunity to see original models, props and stop-motion puppets from films including Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs, before exploring some of those processes through their own filmmaking.
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Our Design Camps take children through the complete process of creating a short animated film. They develop an idea, design and make their characters and sets, learn stop-motion techniques and animate their own work.
Led by Animating Education founders Sophie Burrows and Lucy Whitehead, the sessions balance practical guidance with plenty of space for children to experiment, solve problems and develop their own ideas.
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We are excited to be providing Stop Motion Workshops as part of their upcoming Wildwood exhibition in October!
The Roald Dahl Museum
and Story Centre
We began working with the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden in 2026, delivering animation workshops for children and families.
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The museum is a brilliant setting for animation, with so much of the collection exploring how ideas develop into characters and stories. Our workshops build on this, giving children the opportunity to create characters and stories of their own before bringing them to life through stop motion.
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Children take part in the whole process, from developing an initial idea to drawing, making, building and animating. We want young people to see filmmaking as something they can actively take part in, and to leave with the confidence and skills to continue creating afterwards.
RAF Museum
In 2025 The Royal Air Force Museum commissioned us to deliver a three day schools project exploring Remembrance through filmmaking.
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Working with a primary school, we supported pupils to research, develop and produce I Remember, a film created especially for Remembrance Day. Across the three days, the children were involved in the filmmaking process, developing their ideas and thinking about how they could use film to respond to the themes of memory and Remembrance in their own way.
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The project brought together history, storytelling and practical filmmaking, giving pupils the opportunity to explore a significant and sometimes difficult subject through a creative process. The final film brought together their ideas and perspectives into a piece that could be shared as part of Remembrance Day.
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Projects like I Remember are a great example of how we can work with museums and schools together, using filmmaking to help young people engage with history while giving them a meaningful role in how those stories are interpreted and shared.