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Curating the Story Museum: A resource for educators presents a selection of accessible tools for postgraduate educators teaching and researching in the fields of children’s literature and culture, childhood studies and critical children’s museology. This resource is primarily geared towards educators who work in undergraduate and graduate education in university settings but we hope this may also be a useful resource for museum educators and teachers at a variety of levels who will find innovative ways to apply or extend these resources in early childhood studies, primary or secondary education settings. 

We conceive of this volume as a springboard that illustrates sample approaches to the critical study of children’s museums with a focus on the design, curatorial practices and interactive strategies of institutions and exhibitions focused on children’s books, art, and story across virtual and physical; local and global sites. This Ebook includes summaries of some of our key research outputs and a range of sample approaches to critical review and framing in the examination of children’s museums in research and curricular contexts. Each section includes hypertext links as well as multiple modes (i.e. mapping, video, audio, photography). The collection aims to share a distinctive range of formats and stylistic approaches geared to the education of undergraduate and graduate researchers in classroom and mentorship/training venues. 

This volume significantly features the contributions by undergraduate and graduate collaborators as key team members in our research project as well as students involved in relevant curricular work that intersected in valuable ways inspired by or in tandem with our curating the story museum project. This selection of student research emphasizes the participatory values of our project to work with student co-researchers, not only as part of training in the research process but also as critical collaborators at the levels of knowledge mobilization as well as community engagement. We hope this diverse range of student collaborative work will invite and inspire further work in the field by educators and aspiring educators at a variety of levels and sites. 
 

1. Introduction to Curating the Story Museum
2. Project Description
3. Curating the Story Museum
4. Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistants Research Outputs
5. Urban Children's Books
6. Museums during COVID-19: Opportunities for engagement
7. Children's Museum and Story Sites in the Greater Toronto Area, Past and Present
8. Reviewing Dr. Seuss
9. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Heritage Centre
10. Exhibit reviews from our undergraduate collaborators
11. Research Outputs
12. The hybrid exhibits of the story museum: The child as creative artist and the limits to hands-on participation
13. Exploring the Museum at Night: Young people’s Agency and Citizenship in Museum-Related Children’s Literature and Programming
14. Global Children's Museums
15. Acknowledgements
16. Resources for Research