Tate Britain has a collaboration with Bloomberg in creating a digital drawing platform both physically at both museums as well as digitally. The room consists of a semicircular table with digital drawing pads where children can draw, see their drawing projected onto the wall and shared online. The finished drawing can be saved to a phone or they can order a t-shirt and wear their own creations. This allows children a digital platform for creativity and a virtual and physical exhibition space. They are also able to share their works at #TateDraw.

This is a really good example of a collaboration with a business partner to realise a permanent zone which requires little or no staffing. Bloomberg is afforded visibility and the Tate museums are provided with a technical solution that would otherwise be unaffordable or difficult to prioritize.

The Tate galleries combine this with a broad range of other staffed activities. These include The Play Studio for its youngest users, who can dress-up and place themselves in a Tate collection artwork, explore a range of soundscapes, and play with sound and vision. Their sound wall combines the senses of touch and sound, and was created by Edinburgh-based sound artist Mali Draper using a Bare Conductive interactive wall kit, electrical paint and tactile transducers. The green screen area, including soft sculptural costumes and puppets is by London-based multi-disciplinary artist Rosie Gibbens. These are good examples of collaborations with artists in producing educational acitivites.

Their Story Space book collection, celebrates books that centre children of colour, featuring books by black authors, indigenous authors and authors of colour from around the world. Story Space also includes books by authors and about characters who have protected characteristics such as disability, sexual orientation and religion/ belief.

Their online platform for kids is also extensive and a fantastic learning resource, explaining difficult concepts in plain English: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids.

The Tate is generally a resource-rich platform, both physically and virtually, for education in the visual arts.