Playing Together: Engaging Part-Time Floor Staff in Co-Creating the Museum
What can a children’s museum do in order to have floor staff who are knowledgeable, engaged, and invested in the museum?
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Small Town Dreams Big
With the support of its community, the North Country Children’s Museum created a state-of-the-art interactive museum in Potsdam, New York.
STEM in Children’s Museums
What does STEM really mean in the context of a children’s museum, or in an early childhood area of a science center?
The First Four: Origin Stories of the First Children’s Museums in the United States
In the first 25 years of the 20th century, four museums for children opened in the United States: Brooklyn Children’s Museum (1899), Boston Children’s Museum (1913), the Detroit Children’s Museum (1917), and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (1925).
Museum Schools: Laboratories for Playful Learning
A children’s museum considering a school today has the benefit of learning from the experience of organizations like Portland Children’s Museum and Opal School.
Defining Play: Practical Applications
Having a clear definition of play, on an institutional level, can strengthen a museum’s work and facilitate communication around play to stakeholders.
Helping Busy Parents Support Their Kids’ Brain Development
Vroom, an early learning and brain development initiative, starts from a very simple principle: Parents already have what it takes to be brain-builders.
32 Years and 25 Linear Feet of Hand To Hand
ACM’s quarterly journal, Hand to Hand, was first published in 1986.
The Children’s Museum History & Culture Summit
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ACM convened The Children’s Museum History & Culture Summit on May 5, 2017.
Does Digital Technology Belong in Children’s Museums?
In a recent article in Hand to Hand, Rebecca Herz and Ari Morris discuss their sometimes aligned, sometimes opposed approaches to digital technology.