This article examines nine articles from the Curator archive, from 1960-2017, on the topic of children's museums. It concludes that despite enormous changes in these museums over the 60-year span, there are a number of trends consistent in the literature. The article concludes with a call to museums to invest in research in order to understand the impact of our work, and to help us ensure we are really achieving what we claim to.
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