Nicola Wallis

Museum Educator, The Fitzwilliam Museum


Nicola works in the Learning Team at the Fitzwilliam Museum, connecting people and objects. She specialises in working with primary pupils and children in the Early Years.

A group of adults and their young children seated on the floor of a gallery looking at paintings together

Creative Adventures for Families

by | 14.03.23

Based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Creative Families course offers young children and their adults a chance to explore the Museum through stories, songs, artmaking, and play. Museum Educator, Nicola Wallis, discusses the Museum’s partnership with The Fields Child & Family Centre and the impact of the course. Funded by Cambridge City Council, Creative Families is a four-week project that… Read full article

5 women sitting in a room by a window. Three have small babies on their laps and one woman is playing the harp.

Musical Bumps – Finding our Voice

by | 01.11.22

The arrival of a new baby in a family can feel like living in a kaleidoscope of emotions as everyone settles into new roles, responsibilities, and routines. The Fitzwilliam Museum’s Musical Bumps course used art and music to support new parents to share a unique experience with their babies while affirming their own creative identities at the same time. Life… Read full article

2 small children stand beside a long wall-mounted cabinet and point at the coins it displays

It’s Our Museum Too!

by and | 18.03.22

In early 2020, a group of young children and staff from a local community playgroup spent four mornings ‘in residence’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum. This collaborative action research project built on the findings of the 2017 UCM Nursery in Residence aiming to explore young children’s encounters with objects, spaces and places. Educators from the museum and the playgroup worked together… Read full article