Museum education

Art museum activities encourage children to explore art and express their own creativity. Try our art museum activities with your kids!

In summer 2012, a group of fourteen teen interns teamed up with ten docents to delve deep into what can make a school tour successful and engaging. They worked to jointly share ideas and troublesho…

Museum educators are crucial to museums’ long-term public engagement, but these freelancers lack the job security of a full-time, salaried position.

Are museums child-friendly? In adopting the charter on 'Rights of the Little Visitor at the Museum' - cultural institutions can become welcoming places.

Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational: Art Museum Seek & Find - Scavenger Hunt - Looking at Art - Art Games

the museum of me encourages chidlren to consider what defines them and should…

Growing up in Santa Fe with an artist father, I experienced my fair share of galleries as a child. My dad would drag me along Canyon Road on nights with lots of gallery openings, and my attention would be held for about 0.2 seconds in each space before I got restless. It must have paid …

How can we engage in play that’s appropriate for the museum environment? And how can we get adults involved in play too?

Weaving in the Cincinnati Art Museum

What is the job of a museum curator? What responsibilities do they have? How do they create exhibits for the museum? Find out all this and how to create your own exhibit at home!

I once imagined fixing up a simple outbuilding, no bigger than 15’x15’, where I could bring together small, personal exhibits simply for the enjoyment of gathering and organizing lovely, unusual, treasured, or found objects. I could sense the pleasure of being absorbed in finding ideas from objects collected on walks over years and years, bringing out old fabric buried in family trunks, revisiting my childhood rock collection, or showcasing friends’ artwork. In my mind’s eye, I could picture…

These 6 ways to engage kids at museums are tons of fun for the whole family.

Museum-kits were originally devised to cover the needs of schools in remote parts of Greece. They were designed as early as 1987 with the aim of bringing the world of museums closer to pupils and their teachers. Each Museum-kit focuses on a particular subject and contains copies of artifacts, teaching material, slides, photographs, books, and educational games.

Children Are the Future of Museums

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