How an Art Museum Can Empower BIPOC Girls to Enact Change

Allan Roche Crite’s painting titled School’s Out featured in Experience America exhibit at SAAM. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is one of the most misunderstood art museums in the DC area for its attachment to the National Portrait Gallery. The...

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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