Discovering Child Curating

In this interview by Dr. Sarah Gensburger, Monica Eileen Patterson discusses an emerging subfield of curatorial practice being facilitated more and museums around the world: child curating. Creating opportunities for children to curate exhibitions offers many benefits seeking animate enliven their offerings, are experts innovation, creativity, interactivity. By critically engaging with curated children, scholars members society broadly can gain valuable insights into young people’s perspectives experiences. As important social actors knowledge-bearers, have much teach world they inhabit, if only adults them will listen. interview, lays out her vision a new, critical children’s museology crucial role curating within it. She shares how interest in field developed, contributions curators make museological practice, challenges face taking work forward.