For Museums

Limina Collective enjoys working directly with museums and galleries to develop events and creative content. In close collaboration with Learning, Curatorial, and Development teams, our projects include workshops, tours, digital and printed resources.

For live events in gallery spaces, where beneficial, we provide a portable wireless communication system to transmit audio to up to 24 participants.   

Contact us to explore options. 

Photograph: Maria-Alejandra Huicho

Our museum client list includes: The British Museum, The British Library, The Royal Academy, Pallant House Gallery, The Wallace Collection, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Royal Collection Trust.

The British Museum

Looking Beyond Mindful Tour: a live walking tour using audio headset delivery, to engage with the experience of moving through the museum space, alighting on four objects for slow looking exercises.

Mindful Drawing Workshops: exploring the possibilities of mindfulness and drawing, in response to Käthe Kollwitz prints, shifting awareness between artwork, the body and the materials of drawing. 

The British Library

Art & Mindfulness Weekend Course: an immersive two-day programme for the Library’s ‘Buddhism’ exhibition, bringing together meditation, mindful looking, drawing and reflection. 

Buddhism Exhibition Trail and Take a Breath Family Workshops: working closely with curatorial and learning staff to create mindful exhibition resources for children and young people. 

Drawing and Mindfulness courses: a series of early morning online events to explore drawing as a mindfulness practice, with slow looking at a British LIbrary manuscript.

The Royal Academy

A slow look: a series of short films inviting viewers to take a mindful pause with one artwork. Combining close-up images with a guided looking soundtrack. 

A slow look film for the Royal Academy, by Karly Allen

Pallant House Gallery

The Art of Mindfulness Day Retreats: a popular series of workshops throughout the year, offering time to recharge and connect with art. 

Love for Life Mindfulness Late: Limina Collective was invited to curate this museum Late, a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with our inspiring partner practitioners. 

Slow Looking Blogpost

The Wallace Collection 

Wellbeing and Creativity Week: A week-long programme of mindfulness workshops for older people, focusing on 17th century Dutch paintings. Included the creation of a short film as a lasting resource. 

Taking Time to Look a short film for The Wallace Collection by Karly Allen and Lucia van der Drift

The Bloomberg Connects App – ‘perspectives’ on the Wallace Collection: writing and recording audio content, to introduce mindful looking at Dutch interiors.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Slow Looking Tasters, Gallery Lates: short drop-in sessions developed for the Gallery’s Lates programme, to encourage mindful engagement with one painting. 

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Mindful Life Drawing: bringing meditation practices to the experience of drawing the human body in relation to the Manor’s historic rooms.

Photograph: Maria-Alejandra Huicho

Royal Collection Trust

Mindfulness & Art Evening Event: offering a reflective response to the exhibition ‘Japan: Courts and Culture’, to engage with mindfulness themes embedded in the art of Japan. (Postponed due to Covid-19) 

Community Group Workshops (online and in-gallery): a series of mindful looking and wellbeing workshops for The Queen’s Gallery inclusion programme. (Postponed until 2022.) 

Human Resources Event: on online mindful looking session to support staff wellbeing and sense of connection with artworks in the Royal Collection

Christie’s Education

Mindful Looking Course: ‘Taking Time with Art’, a three-part introduction to mindfulness and art viewing, to support visitors returning to gallery spaces following Covid-19 restrictions.