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Why Museums Should Care About Young Children

By Anna Forgerson Hindley, Cynthia Raso, and Tiffany McGettigan

Anne Forgerson Hindley is the Supervisory Early Childhood Education Coordinator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Cynthia Raso is Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation in Early …

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