Museum Design With, By, and for Children: Innovative International Approaches

Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design.

Clare Murray studies children’s museum experiences. Clare is a Doctoral Candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds an MEd in Art in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in Early Childhood Education Policy from Teachers College, and a BA in Economics and Latin American Studies from Colby College. She co-founded and leads a nonprofit art museum bus designed with/by/for young children in her home state of Connecticut, called cARTie (www.cARTie.org). Additionally, Clare is a two-time Fulbright Scholar -- to Spain and Paraguay.