Call for an end to traditional 'family tickets'

Children's Secretary Ed Balls has offered new charity Kids in Museums £25'000 to fund research into making museums more family friendly.

In an effort to make museums more interactive and accessible to a wider range of families, the charity has published a 20-point manifesto which questions the idea of the traditional 'family ticket' aimed at two adults and two children. They have also raised the questions of pushchair storage and the price and quality of gift shop goods and cafeteria menus.

Kids in Musems will ask families about their experiences of museum trips, publishing the results of their survey in March. Their proposal to museums will include suggestions for a more flexible family ticket that could include families of different shapes and sizes, taking single parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and other carers into account.

UPDATE: We asked you 'do you save money by using family tickets on days out?

44% said 'sometimes'
31% said 'often'
25% said 'never'