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Museums

We have the pleasure of working with amazing museums and galleries every year, using the joy of drama to excite, inspire and educate children visiting their local cultural institutions. As one of the largest theatre-in-education companies in the UK, we provide high quality drama workshops and shows and can use our skills in development and delivery to support your next exhibition, theme or story.

If you’re looking for a bespoke collaboration, we can work with you to develop a workshop to help tell your museums’s unique story. Get in touch to tell us what you have in mind, we’d love to hear from you.

Or you can book one of our existing sessions. Browse our Workshops page to search for an existing session to suit your topic or theme.

This video showcases our recent collaboration with Trent Park House which you can read about further down the page:

 

Trent Park House

In 2023 Freshwater turned 1100 pupils into ‘Secret Listeners’ as part of an exciting collaboration with Trent Park House of Secrets in Enfield.

 

Before they open to the public in 2025,  the museum team wanted to engage the local community, particularly teachers and pupils. Freshwater were chosen to develop two new workshops (one for KS2, the other for KS3) to share the story of the ‘Secret Listeners’ with pupils in Enfield. We worked with Trent Park across 2023, researching, writing and delivering the workshops.

 

We are delighted to say we are now working with Trent Park to deliver our ‘Secret Listeners’ workshop to more schools across Enfield AND we are developing an entirely new workshop about the life of someone who worked at Trent Park House during WWII.

 

Watch this space for further details.

 

Read what Catherine Holden, Schools Manager at Trent Park House had to say about the collaboration. And read our Director, Helen Wood’s, reflections.

 

Dulwich Picture Gallery
We developed bespoke workshops to accompany Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Moomin and Surrealism exhibitions.
We also visited during their Haunted sleepover with some our Guy Fawkes workshops!
Kensington Archives

This year (2026) we worked with Kensington Archives to develop a four part public health project about peer pressure, racism and drug abuse.

The Battle of Britain Bunker

We visited The Battle of Britain Bunker with a special site-specific adaptation of our Second World War session to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the start of the Second World War.

St Albans Museum

We visited St Albans Museum with a bespoke version of our Inspiring Women workshop, focusing on women appearing in their exhibition.

V & A Museum of Childhood

We took part in this year’s Storytelling Festival at the wonderful V & A Museum of Childhood!

 

We have a fantastic range of story-telling sessions which would suit similar events including in museums and at festivals!

Everything, from development, resourcing and delivery through to friendly and responsive communication, has been absolutely spot on. Thank you for all your hard work, I am so impressed with what you have achieved.

Catherine Holden, Schools Manager, Trent Park House