Association of Children's Museums

Based on a research agenda developed by the Association of children's Museums (ACM) under a previous IMLS grant, ACM and the University of Washington's Museology Graduate Program will develop a network of children's museums with the capacity for conducting research, help them identify areas of mutual research interest that respond to the research agenda, conduct three to five research projects across this museum network, and cultivate the network to initiate future research activities. The team will aggregate the resulting data and share it with the broader children's museum field. The research results will provide, for the first time, an evidence base to document learning in and from children's museums and allow the field to articulate the value of their practices and programs.