Encouraging Creative Development
Boston Children’s Museum’s Art Studio is one of my favorite places – and that’s good, because I spend a lot of time there. For the past year-and-a-half, I’ve assisted our…
Category: Behind the Scenes
A behind-the-scenes look at Museum life.
Getting To Know You
Many of you are probably familiar with our Visitor Experience Associates (VEAs, for short) here at Boston Children’s Museum. These are the green-shirted floor staff you encounter at admissions, the…
Creative Confidence – Expand your life experiences
Having creative confidence is trusting and valuing each and every one of your ideas and taking creative risks. In the Art Studio this is goal #1 – to instill creative…
A Lifelong Love of Learning
At Boston Children’s Museum it’s easy to find examples of visitors learning: toddlers developing motor skills as they dance in KidPower; rising kindergarteners playing with math manipulatives in Countdown to…
Sometimes Good Things Come To An End
Today is my last day as the Spring 2014 Growdon Collections Intern. It’s bittersweet because on the one hand I’m leaving behind two new online collections of some of the…
Project Play: Research at Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Children’s Museum works closely with researchers from local universities to conduct studies into child development, cognition and more; and to translate the latest studies and findings for the general…
How do Children Think about Morality? Research at Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Children’s Museum works closely with researchers from local universities to conduct studies into child development, cognition and more; and to translate the latest studies and findings for the general…
Tradition!
The holidays are coming and with them, the assorted joys, stresses and traditions of being with family. Some traditions come from your religion or nationality, and some are specific to…
The Power of Play 