Boston Children's Museum

The Boston children's Museum will develop the concept and design for "Our City," a new exhibit dedicated to learning about the multicultural diversity of Boston. This cultural understanding project will reimagine an extant exhibition "Boston Black," to create a space for vibrant community conversations, input, and sharing. The museum will create the following tangible products during this two year project: a literature review on children, culture, identity, and cross-cultural learning in museums; front-end research including conversations and surveys with visitors and community groups; a plan outlining the goals and rationale for exhibition; a graphic approach; and a set of exhibition components that have been prototyped and evaluated. "Our City" will be iteratively developed and refined based on the perspectives of community conversations, content specialists, exhibit designers, and advisors, as well as feedback from museum visitors to create a meeting ground for interacting, sharing stories and developing awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the many cultures that constitute Boston.