When you’re sitting in your parked car, alone, in a pocket of quiet hidden between the commute and the grocery store, taking a moment to check in with how you’re doing, to get absorbed in your thoughts and also the big puffy clouds drifting across the sky, and you look at the car next to you and see a woman (another mom?) taking […]
Read MoreWhen we asked our toddler if he wanted to go to the local science museum this weekend, he got really excited and said, “Yeah! We can press all the buttons!” This kid knows what he loves. It can be harder for adults to do that, to listen to that little voice that tells us how we *actually* want to engage with our environments. Museums can be […]
Read MoreI did it! I submitted the examen doctoral, my PhD program’s comprehensive exam. I wrote and wrote for 80 pages about research on museums and experience and innovation and storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration and money and imagination, and how digital fits into all of that. This was something that felt impossible. It’s been […]
Read MoreI felt like I was in a David Hockney painting this week. My son and I spent a morning in the outdoor pool in our local park, and somehow we were the only ones there (besides the three lifeguards looking out for us). The turquoise water in the pool was still, except around my splish splashing toddler in lemon swim trunks and his […]
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IMAGINIBUS is a blog about playing in museums, with a focus on imagination and creativity.
This blog is a place to be inspired to use your imagination around artworks—and to see the art of your daily life.
When we engage creatively with art, museums can become playgrounds and laboratories to experiment with attention, mindfulness, and imagination. Interesting things happen when we use that museum gaze to look at our daily lives like a work of art.
Find more inspiration for playing with new ways of paying attention to your daily life here.
Hello! I'm Marina Gross-Hoy, a writer, Museum Studies PhD candidate, and mother currently living in Quebec. I take playing in museums very seriously.
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