Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children’s Museum (BCM) will develop and implement “Museums and Libraries Are for Families,” a community engagement project designed to help diversify current audiences and expand underserved populations’ access to and engagement with BCM. The program will tackle the three most significant barriers to underserved populations’ museum participation: comfort, affordability, and familiarity. Family events at Boston Center for Youth and Families and local library branches, as well as facilitated family field trips to BCM, will increase visitor comfort with the institution. Discounts to the museum, available at Boston Public Library locations, will improve affordability. Libraries will also have supplemental materials, such as downloadable exhibit guides in six languages. Lastly, the project will increase underserved groups’ familiarity with BCM as fun and beneficial for the whole family through an integrated awareness campaign emphasizing family benefit.