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Museum visits with parents as ‘co-researchers’ brought about meaningful connections with two-year-olds, explain Dr Christina MacRae and members of the Martenscroft Nursery School and Children’s Centre research collective

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Our research collective is a diverse and changing group consisting of parents, children, a school governor, early years practitioners, the early years co-ordinator from Manchester Museum and a researcher-in-residence from Manchester Metropolitan University. What connects us all is Martenscroft Nursery School and Children’s Centre, an early years setting located in Hulme, close to the city centre. And our recent question was: What can children and parents gain by making repeat visits to the same location?

As the nursery is located within walking distance to the Manchester Museum, this seemed an obvious destination. While nursery children had made various trips to the museum, it was a first for children from our two-year-old room.

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