Documenting projects that take museums outside their walls

I had the privilege of documenting three projects this month that were hosted by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. First, the museum hosted a really cool project lead by Cynthia Blackwell in conjunction with the Carnegie Museums, that taught students about curating a gallery exhibit. They put this info to work by hanging the show for the All City Art Show which was housed in the Museum basement. The next day the Museum hosted a field trip for third graders at Manchester School. The students toured the North Side with historians. It was really neat.
I like the idea of thinking of a museum as a place where people learn, a place that is much bigger than the walls of a building.


Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh May 2011 – Images by Renee Rosensteel

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