Museum of Brands

The Museum of Brands is the only museum of its kind in the world with thousands of examples of branding, packaging, and advertising.

Discover 150 years’ worth of British culture with a self-guided student visit. 

The Museum also offers educational workshops covering subjects such as Art & Design, Business, Media Studies, History, and Sustainability, providing interactive learning experiences led by knowledgeable educators.

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Workshop Offerings:

• Smoothie Lab: Developed in partnership with innocent, this workshop delves into product development, branding strategies, and consumer behaviour. Students have the opportunity to create their own smoothie concept, considering aspects like health benefits, design, marketing, and pitching. 
• Brand Evolution Challenge: This session explores the purpose of packaging and the development of supermarket brands from the Victorian era to the present day. Students analyse the museum's collection and work in groups to redesign packaging based on consumer habits and market trends. 
• Sustainability in Packaging: Focusing on environmentalism, this workshop examines historical and contemporary packaging. Participants design their own sustainable products, emphasising future-focused solutions.
• Gender in Advertising: This workshop analyses the construction of gender roles in media. Participants create a poster that demonstrates an increased awareness of gender stereotypes.​
• Chocolate Product Devising & Branding: Aimed at primary school students, this interactive session combines Maths and enterprise as learners brand and market a new chocolate product. The activity includes budgeting for ingredients and strategising marketing approaches tailored to target audiences.
• Graphic Design & Packaging: This creative workshop encourages students to consider how packaging graphics have evolved and how they communicate key messages to consumers. Participants collaborate to enhance the graphics of a current UK product.​

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Images used copy-righted to the Robert Opie Collection, Museum of Brands.  

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