What character do you relate most to? Let us know!

See what we have been working on as the CuratingStoryMuseum team!

Greetings! This Spring/Summer, the Curating the Story Museum team is putting a pause on our research and continuing the project with a virtual sharing and youth curating sessions. We will send out short video questions about young people and museums every week. Please feel free to circulate to kids, teachers, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends, caregivers, and educators. For our third prompt, we would like you to think of your favorite fictional character (from a book, a movie, a video game from anywhere) and represent that character in some cool way! Be sure to let us know why the character is your favorite! You could draw the character, dress like the character or write a short description of the character. It’s up to you! Please submit all responses to our email address: curatingstory@gmail.com by next Monday May 18th. Official Website: https://www.curatingstory.com/ Email: curatingstory@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/CuratingStory YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCghHkA0yNGLyE_K-uF7rGKQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curatingstory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Curating-The-Story-Museum-102937351379544/

Greetings! This Spring/Summer, the Curating the Story Museum team is putting a pause on our research and continuing the project with a virtual sharing and youth curating sessions. We will send out short video questions about young people and museums every week. Please feel free to circulate to kids, teachers, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends, caregivers, and educators. This week, we want you to find your favorite object in your home that you would put in a museum or art gallery, tell us why you like it? Where did you get it? Or where did it come from? And how does it make you feel? If you were to find your object in a museum or a gallery, what kind of museum or gallery would it be? Send us a document, picture or photograph of your object by Friday May 1st: Official Website: https://www.curatingstory.com/ Email: curatingstory@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/CuratingStory YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCghHkA0yNGLyE_K-uF7rGKQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curatingstory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Curating-The-Story-Museum-102937351379544/

In March 2018, research assistant Quentin Stuckey sat down with Dr. Naomi Hamer for an interview originally intended to be published as part of the Ryerson Liberal Arts Society newsletter. At the time, "Curating The Story Museum" was in its early conception and Stuckey was a student of Hamer's at Ryerson University. In this audio interview, Dr. Hamer discusses her interest in children's literature, her research, how she got into the field, offers advice to undergraduate students pursuing an Arts degree among other topics.

Meet the team of academics, undergraduate researchers and graduate students behind this exciting research project. In this video, they answer questions about children's books, favorite areas in Toronto and share some interesting tidbits about themselves! Official Website: https://www.curatingstory.com/ Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/CuratingStory Official Padlet: https://padlet.com/curatingstory/r4ykz7k335sd *Introducing our Official HistoryPin: https://www.historypin.org/en/person/103103

The Ryerson University Library has been instrumental to our research for "Curating The Story Museum." In this video, we got to sit down with Special Collections librarian Alison Skyrme and discuss the department, archival collections, the Children's Literature Archive, other fun facts about Ryerson Special Collections, her favorite children's book and favorite areas in the city of Toronto. RUL (Ryerson University Library): https://library.ryerson.ca/ Archives & Special Collections: https://library.ryerson.ca/asc/

Children's story museums have become distinctive venues for public awareness and critical engagement with the representations and constructions of childhood; however, only limited scholarly work has focused on these sites. This proposed research examines the children's story museum as a dynamic transmedia platform for the design of participatory exhibits and critical dialogue. Drawing upon theoretical and methodological frames from museum studies and the field of children's media cultures, this project invites children to engage as collaborative curators in the transmedia design of a pilot story museum exhibit rooted in local rare books and archival collections including the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Ryerson University's Children's Literature Archive, Toronto, and Ontario Archives, alongside the child participants' own stories and imagined narratives. ​This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through an Insight Development Grant. Official Website: https://www.curatingstory.com/ Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/CuratingStory Official Padlet: https://padlet.com/curatingstory/r4ykz7k335sd