“I am writing to thank you for the most wonderful experience that my family had on Saturday. We visited the Science Museum’s Early Bird session for the first time and it was so very special for us to see our three sons, aged 4, 7 and 9 so engaged and inspired by everything around them. Our eldest son has autism and this stops him from accessing these places during normal opening hours. Sadly it often prevents his younger siblings from going too. We have only just discovered the autism-friendly museum openings and see that the Natural History Museum has one too, which you also make possible, so we are very excited about discovering that later in the year. We just wanted to say thank you for making these events possible and giving us all so much joy.” – Molly Neal

The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation has generously supported an access and education programmes at the British Museum since 2014. In September 2016 the Foundation awarded the Museum a grant of £90,000 over three years to support Phase II of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Access and Education Programme, 2017 to 2020. Leading on from learnings in Year One, in Year Two the programme began to embed the most successful activity elements into the Museum’s permanent programming. Read the full report here