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Children’s Museology and the COVID-19 Crisis

By Monica Eileen Patterson

While physical museums are facing an uncertain future, virtual museum visitorship is booming. The Louvre’s web traffic has increased tenfold to four hundred thousand visits a day, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art reports an …

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