Staying Out Front (While Behind-the-Scenes Exhibit Work Goes on)
During the museum’s closure to visitors, North Country Children’s Museum pivoted their focus to online, lending, and outdoor programming to continue serving their audiences.
Climate Action Heroes: New Museum Uses Small Exhibit to Create Broad Digital Experiences
Open for just eighteen days before the museum was forced to close to the public due to COVID-19, National Children’s Museum leveraged their Climate Action Heroes exhibit to generate online programming that helps fulfill their mission.
Exhibit Fabrication and Installation Challenges during COVID
This piece takes a look at how the COVID-19 pandemic affects exhibit planning, prototyping, available materials, and more.
What’s Different about This Picture: Laying the (New) Groundwork for Design
By designing for the future, museums can hold resilience as a core value that sustainably guides everything the organization does.
Museums in a Pandemic: Snapshot of Impacts in Fall 2020
ACM Trends Report 4.5 shares results from a September/October survey of ACM members about how COVID-19 is affecting the children’s museum field.
Celebration Ideas to “Fall Back” on this Halloween
Fall celebrations might look different this year, but there are still plenty of fun ways to celebrate safely. If you need some tricks to add to your treat bag this Halloween, try these tips for a spook-tacular celebration with family and friends.
How Children’s Museums Can Leverage Relationship-Building for Fundraising Success
Relationship building is the very foundation and core of nonprofit development.
The Founding of the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center – An Excerpt from International Thinking on Children in Museums
This excerpt from “International Thinking on Children in Museums: A Sociocultural View of Practice” shares the story of Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center’s founding.
Hand to Hand: COVID-19: Stories from the Field
The latest issue of Hand to Hand, “COVID-19: Stories from the Field” is now available!
Children’s Museums Surviving the Pandemic: Insights from Three Leaders
Peter Olson spoke with the leaders of Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Greentrike, and Children’s Museum Houston about their museums’ strategies for surviving closure, preparing to reopen, and reimagining missions and adapted operations.