It is not every day that youngsters get the chance to view a Gainsborough masterpiece right up close – and in their very own school too. But that’s what happened at The Voyager Academy in Peterborough earlier this month.
The school was part of a three-week initiative allowing 27 secondary and primary schools to borrow paintings collectively worth £14 million from museums and galleries.
Entitled “Your Paintings: Masterpieces in Schools”, the project enables works by artists like Gainsborough, LS Lowry, Monet, Spencer and Turner to be transported into schools for the day.
The aim of the scheme, organised by the Public Catalogue Foundation and supported by BBC Learning, is to introduce young people to the nation’s varied collection of paintings.
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