Fix-It Fest
On Sunday, May 3 Boston Children’s Museum held our first Fix-It Fest, a one-day extravaganza devoted to construction, fixing, and creating. Inspired by Broken? Fix-It, a traveling exhibit from Long…
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Wheelock College Student Observations: Follow Me!
This post is the last in our series of articles by Wheelock College students documenting their observations of the many different kinds of learning and adult-child interactions taking place at Boston Children’s…
Wheelock Student Observations at Boston Children’s Museum: Interactions in PlaySpace
This post is part of our series of articles by Wheelock College students documenting their observations of the many different kinds of learning and adult-child interactions taking place at Boston…
Wheelock Student Research at Boston Children’s Museum: Kitchen Conversations
This post is part of our series of articles by Wheelock College students documenting their observations of the many different kinds of learning and adult-child interactions taking place at Boston…
Observing your Children Learn and Play
By Wheelock faculty, Stephanie Cox Suarez, Erica Licea-Kane; student documenter, Angelina Amato; and Boston Children’s Museum staff member Kana Tsuchiya In spring 2015, Stephanie Cox Suarez and Erica Licea-Kane led…
Bringing Together the Museum and Hospital Communities
This post was written by Boston Children’s Museum’s Health and Wellness Intern, Viktoriya Dribinskaya. The “Message in a Milk Bottle” project is a new and wonderful tradition here at Boston Children’s Museum. This…
Artifacts Telling Stories
Artifacts carry an array of stories from who used it, who made it, what was it used for, and even how it came to the museum. Boston Children’s Museum’s collection…
A Good Choice
Philosophers have theorized about how and why humans make the choices we do for hundreds of years. These days it seems like more choices are sprouting up in all aspects…
The Power of Play 