Gifting Season is upon us, so how about using Free The Museum as your gift-giving inspiration? (While you’re at it, maybe you should treat yourself too.)
Here are a few (somewhat randomly selected) ideas to get you started.
Go DIY and put together a custom experience kit. Assemble the equipment for nature exploration or weather observations. Follow the example of Mr. Bones in the book, The Christmas Junk Box by Tony King and fill a box with odds and ends, a new tool or two, and some craft materials. Or, like artist Amy Brown, who co-created a small museum with kids in her apartment complex, take inspiration from Brian D. Collier's online collections database following his Classification System for Very Small Objects, and get the kids making their own museum.
Looking for more ideas and inspiration?
Click the Free Tools button below for our Guidebook and brainstorm-prompting Tactic Cards.
FREE THE MUSEUM is an initiative to activate the “museum experience” in the world around us, transforming everyday places into sites of engagement, reflection, healing, activism, and informal learning.
