Curating the Story Museum: A Resource for EducatorsMain MenuIntroduction to Curating the Story MuseumBy Naomi Hamer and Ann Marie MurnaghanProject DescriptionProject DescriptionCurating the Story MuseumSummary Video of the ProjectUndergraduate and Graduate Research Assistants Research OutputsResearch Assistant CollaborationsUrban Children's BooksBy Quentin StuckeyMuseums during COVID-19: Opportunities for engagementResearched and written by Dana MitchellChildren's Museum and Story Sites in the Greater Toronto Area, Past and PresentBy Sabrina Pavelic, with Helena Wright and Elizabeth TherouxReviewing Dr. SeussBy Sabrina PavelicThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police Heritage CentreBy C. GunnExhibit reviews from our undergraduate collaboratorsReviews from Dr. Hamer's English 910: English Capstone SeminarResearch OutputsBook Chapter and Journal Articles produced over the course of the project.The hybrid exhibits of the story museum: The child as creative artist and the limits to hands-on participationBy Naomi Hamer (2019) Museum and Society, 17(3), 390-403.Exploring the Museum at Night: Young people’s Agency and Citizenship in Museum-Related Children’s Literature and ProgrammingBy Naomi Hamer and Ann Marie Murnaghan. In The Role of the Child as Citizen: Agency and Activism in Children’s Literature and Culture, edited by Giuliana Fenech. University of Mississippi Press.Global Children's MuseumsArt, Story and PlayAcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to all our CollaboratorsResources for ResearchCollection of Documents in this EbookAnn Marie Murnaghan and Naomi Hamer081b9a890206e558011a8c3bc15a99df3910cbdf
Children's Own Museum
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The Children’s Own Museum was first introduced in 1997 as a temporary exhibit at the Harbourfront Centre. In 1998, it moved to a space at the ROM in the McLaughlin Planetarium until it shuttered its doors in 2002. But this wasn’t the end of the Children’s Own Museum, or renamed, Children’s Own Media Museum. It remained in operation without a fixed address until 2011 when it aimed to return as the Children’s Mobile Media Museum; a travelling museum that could set up shop at numerous locations across Ontario. The endeavour never really came to fruition and the museum hasn’t been heard of since its last Facebook update in 2014. Its initial premise was simple: “what does blank space mean to you? We want to know!” The project aimed to make their children’s visitors the central curators of the museum experience and a number of interactive and open-ended activities were available during the museum’s operation from 1997–2002. Children’s Own Museum took learning through play to an entirely new level through its innovative mission.
The first and only museum that highlighted the child’s experience so completely in Toronto Gave children more freedom than most museums so that it feels like they are curating their own experiences just through the use of the museum’s space
12024-02-24T11:19:22-05:00Ann Marie Murnaghan and Naomi Hamer081b9a890206e558011a8c3bc15a99df3910cbdfChildren's Museum and Story Sites in the Greater Toronto Area, Past and PresentAnn Marie Murnaghan and Naomi Hamer5By Sabrina Pavelic, with Helena Wright and Elizabeth Therouxgoogle_maps2024-03-07T10:31:15-05:00Ann Marie Murnaghan and Naomi Hamer081b9a890206e558011a8c3bc15a99df3910cbdf