Collections and Community Engagement

FAIN: ZPP-283616-22

Boston Children's Museum (Boston, MA 02210-1016)
Rachel Farkas (Project Director: May 2021 to June 2023)
Melissa Higgins (Project Director: June 2023 to January 2026)

Development of the Our City exhibition.

BCM seeks to preserve humanities staff through a robust process for developing co-created collections displays and recorded oral histories as part of the Our City exhibit and for display windows throughout the Museum. The process involves working with community members to review existing collections holdings to identify meaningful materials, determining current gaps, recording first-person narratives related to the objects, editing the recorded stories, prototyping them with visitors to ensure they are compelling, and installing these object vignettes and audio guides with media players.