Learning Language at the Museum through Song

Learn new words with your child in the Where Do Words Come From interactive exhibit! Photo credit Lindsay Guarnieri. Have you ever heard of an entire museum dedicated to learning about languages and linguistics?! Planet Word is a unique museum and the only...

A Brief Tour of Washington DC’s Unpopular Museums

Did you know that the theatre that President Lincoln was assassinated in is located in DC? Not only that, but that it is a functional theatre that puts on musicals and plays and a museum on the history of President Lincoln and how the background of the assassination...

Why Art Museums Are Important Spaces For the Young Girls

According to researchers, female artists make up about 13% of the artists featured in art museums (Braz, Camberg, Ellis 2022). This number was not surprising to me. In Washington, D.C., the National Women in the Arts Museum is dedicated to featuring female artists who...

History Interactive Where Young Voices Advocated For Change

Visitors engaging in interactive. Photo by Lindsay Guarnieri. The most notable exhibits at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture are on the history of slavery and the civil rights movement located on the ground floor below the...

Interactives that (actually) Work at a Smithsonian Museum 

Step Afrika! Interactive. Photo by Lindsay Guarnieri. Throughout this series, I have discussed how one of my biggest issues with the Smithsonian museums in the DC area is that not many interactives engage visitors in the act of play. The act of play is how young...

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