Marina Gross-Hoy is a writer, Museum Studies PhD candidate, and mother. She takes playing in museums very seriously.
Originally from Michigan, Marina moved to museum-saturated Paris to complete a master's in muséologie at the École du Louvre. She later joined the education team at the Agence France-Muséums, the French agency that supported the creation of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. She is currently a PhD candidate in Museum Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal, researching how museums develop digital projects to create engaging experiences for visitors. She also serves on the board of the Committee for Education and Cultural Action within the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Marina writes about playing with new ways of paying attention to embodied experience. Her newsletter, The Museum Gaze, explores how observing ordinary life with the same gaze we use with art in a museum can open us up to wonder, wholehearted living, and empowerment. Her writing has appeared in Khôra, Mothering Spirit, and Anthrow Circus.
Marina is based in the Eastern Townships of Québec.
I would like to acknowledge that the land on which I live and work is the traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people and the Wabenaki confederacy.
Photo of Marina by Coconut Lullaby