child-friendly art Archives - A Baby on Board blog https://www.ababyonboard.com/tag/child-friendly-art/ A London mum blog for the parenting journey. UK interiors, pregnancy, baby & parenting lifestyle blog Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:12:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://www.ababyonboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-Gill-London-32x32.jpg child-friendly art Archives - A Baby on Board blog https://www.ababyonboard.com/tag/child-friendly-art/ 32 32 The Tate Modern With Kids: The Best London Art Galleries For Babies And Toddlers https://www.ababyonboard.com/london-art-for-babies-the-tate-modern/ https://www.ababyonboard.com/london-art-for-babies-the-tate-modern/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:18:50 +0000 https://www.ababyonboard.com/?p=1653 Taking A Trip To The Tate Modern With Kids Thinking of going to the Tate Modern with kids? Wondering how child-friendly the Tate Modern is for toddlers? Here’s what we thought on our recent trip to the Tate Modern with a baby. How Child-Friendly Is The Tate Modern With Kids? If you’re thinking of going to the Tate Modern with kids, toddlers or babies, and wondering how child-friendly is it, the answer is very. It’s very easy to access, even with a pram. The staff are really friendly. There are change facilities and a cafe with a children’s menu. While there’s no dedicated children’s area (there used to be!) the art is all very visual, colourful and easy to look at. There are also a lot of places to run around freely, including the giant turbine hall (toddler paradise). Taking A Baby To The Tate Modern When it comes to London’s art galleries and museums, the Tate Modern is right up there with my favourites.  Last time we went I was 37 weeks pregnant – which seems about three lifetimes away now – so when Nick and I were planning to meet up on a Saturday, we thought it was a good place to go with Eliza. The Turbine Hall at the Tate currently has a Tino Sehgal exhibition, if that’s even the right word, which consists of  live, choreographed encounters between people, using noise and light. When we arrived it was dark and the giant lights were flashing, and there was a big group of people doing a slow step up and down the main floor. We watched from upstairs – trying to work out if it was some kind of un-dead uprising or a Thriller flashmob – and then went downstairs and walked around the group. It was interesting; a lot more complicated and less immediately obvious than the crack, the slides, the seeds, or the sun. Coincidentally, it actually was International Zombie Day; we ran into a group of people dressed up as we left. As it was Saturday and fairly busy we stayed away from the main Tate Modern galleries, but we did take a look around the Tanks, the new / old section attached to the main hall that has been built out of the power station oil tanks (it’s pretty industrial, to say the least). There were several different exhibitions including Lis Rhodes’ Light Music, and a room of Sung Hwan Kim projections. All of them consisted of darkened rooms, video projections, flashing lights and muffled and distorted sounds. Nick and I were weirded out by a lot of it, as it seemed like something from either Twin Peaks or a pretty terrifying nightmare. However Eliza was open-mouthed in silent wonder (light and dark, flickering lights? A red room? Muffled sounds? Must have been a lot like being in the womb). Andy Warhol at Dulwich Picture Gallery was so bright and visual, but a lot of this was like a big old baby sensory room with added ambient noise. I do love the Tate Modern; it does a lot to make art accessible for all, both figuratively and literally (the main entrance to the Turbine Hall is like a giant pushchair ramp). Anyway I reckon we’ll be back pretty soon on a less busy weekday, especially as it’s such an easy trip on public transport (short train ride to London Bridge, short walk).  Where Is The Tate Modern? The Tate Modern is at Bankside, near Shakespeare’s Globe When Is The Tate Modern Open? The Tate galleries are open every day from 10am – 6pm. Is Tate Modern Free? The main galleries are free to enter (although you do need to book a ticket). The special exhibitions and galleries are not free and you will need to buy a ticket online. More Places In London To Take A Baby: The London Transport Museum  Discover Story Play Centre The Florence Nightingale Museum Our favourite south London parks

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]]> https://www.ababyonboard.com/london-art-for-babies-the-tate-modern/feed/ 16 Art for babies: Andy Warhol and Phillip Haas at the Dulwich Picture Gallery https://www.ababyonboard.com/art-for-babies-andy-warhol-and-phillip-haas-at-the-dulwich-picture-gallery/ https://www.ababyonboard.com/art-for-babies-andy-warhol-and-phillip-haas-at-the-dulwich-picture-gallery/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:54:33 +0000 https://www.ababyonboard.com/?p=1158 Last week we went to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, which is just down the road from us in Dulwich Village. As well as the permanent collection of old masters, there’s currently an Andy Warhol exhibition as well as Phillip Hass sculptures in the Dulwich Picture Gallery garden (the Four Seasons, the giant fruit heads in the photos). Considering they were made from fiberglass, the detail on the Four Seasons sculptures was impressive, and they do make an enormous impact as they are so, well, big. The Andy Warhol pictures at the Dulwich Picture Gallery were great though; the iconic Campbell’s soup pictures are included but it was really interesting to see the Mohammed Ali prints and some of the lesser-known pictures in the final room. I would like to say that Eliza enjoyed it, but she sat in her pram cooing the whole time (you can spot her in the photos above with her Grandad).   Both the Haas and Warhol exhibitions at the Dulwich Picture Gallery are so visual though, so would be great for older children. More things in London – the London Transport Museum and the Discover Children’s Story Centre

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