{"id":20740,"date":"2020-10-20T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=20740"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:15","slug":"monica-patterson-writes-about-childrens-museology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2020\/monica-patterson-writes-about-childrens-museology\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Patterson Writes About Children’s Museology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Associate Professor Monica Patterson<\/a> (Cross-Appointed with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the History Department) has written an article for the American Alliance of Museums detailing how the current pandemic has affected museums and how a new children’s museology is emerging as a result. A short excerpt is included below, with the full article, “Children\u2019s Museology and the COVID-19 Crisis<\/a>” available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While physical museums are facing an uncertain<\/a> future<\/a>, virtual museum visitorship is booming<\/a>. The Louvre<\/a>\u2019s web traffic has increased tenfold to four hundred thousand visits a day, and New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> reports an elevenfold uptick in visits to #MetKids<\/a>, its youth education initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This forced quantum leap into virtual visitorship intersects powerfully with young people\u2019s preferred technologies<\/a>, enabling them to participate more prolifically and publicly in museum programming than ever before. As a result, I argue, a new critical children\u2019s museology is emerging at the forefront of virtual museological practice. As I define it, children\u2019s museology refers to the production of museum content and programming not just for<\/em> or about<\/em> children, but also by<\/em> and with<\/em> children in ways that engage them as valued social actors and knowledge-bearers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children make up almost 23 percent<\/a> of the population in the US, and almost 30 percent in the world, but they are often treated as blank screens upon which adults cast their own values, hopes, and fears\u2014as often seen in societal debates about them. As childhood studies scholars<\/a> and children\u2019s rights advocates<\/a> have argued for decades, children must instead be seen as active in the construction and determination of their own social lives and the societies in which they live. Within households, for instance, children require care, but they also contribute significant emotional and physical labor. Children are observant and reflective, and, like adults, have ideas and experiences that can productively inform efforts toward social change. They hold a great deal of knowledge\u2014not least about themselves and other children, and the circumstances of childhood in their historical moment and cultural location. However, much of this knowledge is not valued or recognized as such by adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associate Professor Monica Patterson (Cross-Appointed with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the History Department) has written an article for the American Alliance of Museums detailing how the current pandemic has affected museums and how a new children’s museology is emerging as a result. A short excerpt is included below, with the full article, “Children\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20741,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740\/revisions\/20741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}