Davis, B., & Dunn, R. (2023). Education Sciences, 13(1), 74.
This paper describes a research project conducted by researchers in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA, Sydney, Australia). The project was designed to bring young children to the MCA in order to experience a diverse range of artworks, provide sensorial responses and engage with materials and production techniques. The focus of the project described was to understand how young children make meaning and bring meaning to art, and to consider engagement of young children in museum spaces. Much of what is described relates to young children’s language development and how this is impacted upon by arts-based experiences, with a specific focus on what the museum space enables for young children as they develop language.