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This Easter at the Ragged School
Thanks to all our visitors who joined us during our programme of free arts activities over the Easter Holiday! This Easter, we looked to 19th century art and design as our inspiration. We...
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Museum prepares for May Half Term
With just a week to go, the museum prepares its programme of activities during May Half Term The Education team are busy, busy, busy getting ready for May Half Term! Learning Officers Jennie and Danie,...
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May Half Term a wonderful success!
This May Half Term the museum enjoyed the greatest number of visitors during the May school holiday in ten years! Thanks to all those who joined us – new and faces and old! This half term we...
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City & Guilds Art School to Host Exhibition “Liminal”
Students at the City & Guild London School of Art are to hold an interim show of first and second year painters and sculptors. The private view will be held on the evening of Thursday 18th June at...
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Museum prepares for summer holiday!
It’s the 1st of July – and that means that the summer holidays are just round the corner. We’re beginning to prepare a programme of brilliant FREE activities for families. In September, our current...
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Lorraine’s Lessons at the Ragged School
This summer, a team from ITV’s Lorraine joined the Ragged School Museum to film a short fashion VT. Using our lovely top floor classroom, the short film included a lesson in refreshing your wardrobe...
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Interning at the Ragged School
“I’ve been an intern at the Ragged School Museum for just over a month now. I first heard about the position through my university’s careers website and the role of an education and development intern...
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63 Years of Queen Vic – Summer 2015
This Summer Holiday we welcomed more than 1,300 visitors to the museum to take part in our free family events! With Queen Elizabeth II set to take over Queen Victoria as Britain’s longest reigning...
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Creating ‘A Study in Sherlock’– Interning at RSM
By Kendall Taivalkoski “How did an American from Wisconsin end up being an intern at the Ragged School Museum? Image Credit: Kendall Taivalkoski My University, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point...
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Ragged Children, Mended Lives
In 1877, the few square miles around where the Ragged School Museum stands today was one of the most densely populated places on earth. In a then squalid corner of London, more than a million people –...
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Just why does Victorian science rule?
We’ve been having a great time at the Ragged School Museum with our amazing Easter holiday activities. The theme was Victorian science, giving us a chance to learn a lot about some fantastic men and...
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Open House for Barnardo’s 150th Anniversary!
Barnardo’s & Ragged School Museum have teamed up to celebrate Barnardo’s 150th anniversary. 10:00am to 4:00pm Join us on Saturday 7th May for our Open House including Victorian lessons to transport...
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The Dr’s Desk!
Today the Museum dug out part of it’s collection on loan from Barnardo’s to go on display for the first time. Dr Barnardo’s very own desk will be on display this weekend as the Ragged School Museum and...
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And the Winner is….
The Judges have made their decision! This past school holiday, over the May half term, the theme of our activities here at the Museum was “The Children of Victorian Stories”. Visitors to the Museum...
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Ragged Times: A Children’s Newspaper (part I)
June Half Term Activity Days here at the Ragged School Museum were entitled Children of Victorian Stories and also marked International Children’s Day celebrated on the 1st of June. For those of you...
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From Rags to Winners!
Thank you to every one that visited the Museum for our October Half Term Activities which this year celebrated the launch of Jacqueline Wilson’s new book Clover Moon. Over the two days we ran a...
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Heritage Lottery Fund Announcement!
The Ragged School Museum is delighted to announce that it has been supported with £4.3 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This money is crucial to the safeguarding of the building and the work of...
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Heritage Lottery Fund Project
Plann Limited, on behalf of the Ragged School Museum, is currently seeking to recruit the following two positions: Project Manager Cost Consultant Please download the relevant Invitation to Tender...
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63 Years of Queen Vic – Summer 2015
This Summer Holiday we welcomed more than 1,300 visitors to the museum to take part in our free family events! With Queen Elizabeth II set to take over Queen Victoria as Britain’s longest reigning...
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Father Christmas Needs You!
There’s a shortage of magic at Santa’s secret London HQ and only YOU can help his Elves conjure-up more in time for Christmas Eve. Come to The Ministry of Christmas, Santa’s secret hideaway at The...
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