Author(s)

Yuran Wang, Hui Yao, Rongpan Chen, Yitong Zhao

Corresponding Author

Yuran Wang

Abstract

Children’s museums have become a popular place for children to go to play and learn. This paper presents an overview of the children’s museums in Pittsburgh, Florence and Hangzhou and describes the advantages of children’s museums in Pittsburgh and Florence, and how these advantages can be adopted to support the improvement of museums in Hangzhou. In addition, the information from the questionnaire and interview presents the parents’ ideas about the children’s museums and basic information about the museums in the three cities including founding, activities, and background.

Keywords

Children’s museum, activity, family, culture