Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum

The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum will collaborate with Creative Discovery Museum (Chattanooga, TN), the Thinkery (Austin, TX), and the Department of Child and Family Life at C.S. Mott children's Hospital at the University of Michigan to develop a training model called Healing Through Hands-On Science. The project will address the need for museums and children's hospitals to capitalize on one another's resources to provide programming for pediatric patients and their families, and for museums to offer health-based programs to advance STEM learning. The museum will develop a toolkit of best practices to better enable other museum-hospital collaborations. Project evaluation plans include measuring the depth of change in partner institutions, number of people impacted, and how the program is shaped by each partner in their respective communities.