Museum and gallery trips have no impact on school grades, reveals British study

Children posing in front of 'The Blue Boy' by English artist Thomas Gainsborough at the National Gallery in London in January. Photo: AFP

"Highbrow" cultural pursuits such as theatre trips or museum visits have no impact on children’s performance in end-of-school exams, new analysis has found.

Researchers from the University of Sussex and University of Edinburgh found that while children’s reading habits had an impact on exam grades, visits to museums or historical sites had no correlation with high grades in Britain’s GCSE exams.