Archival Material

Date Original: 2013

Description: In Education of a Dropout, Chapter 2 of Boston Stories, author Mike Spock learns how his disabilities and non-standard education turned out to be assets in re-conceiving and developing a new kind of museum.

Creator(s): Mike Spock, author

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Date Original: July 21, 1959

Description: Dr. Spock discusses becoming a grandfather for the first time inLook Magazine (6 pages).

Creator(s):Gereon Zimmerman, author; Look Magazine, publisher

Keywords: Mike Spock, childhood, Dr. Ben Spock, child rearing

Date Original: n.d.

Description: An elephant and several sea creatures are seen in this undated photo from the Visitor Center exhibit, Animals.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibit, visitor's center, animals

Date Original: 1950s

Description: In notes to an American Museum of Natural History colleague, Bob Osborn mentions Mike Spock and his desire to go into natural history museum work (6 pages).

Creator(s): Bob Osborn, author

Keywords: museums, correspondence, natural history, mike spock

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The Boston Children's Museum's home in Jamaica Plain.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: jamaicaway; move; home; picture; photograph; building

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The Jamaica Plain Building, home to the Children's Museum from 1936-1979.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: Jamaicaway Building, architecture

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Historic photograph of the Jamaica Plain building.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: historic images, Jamaica Plain, building

Date Original: June 22, 1996

Description: Frank Avruch discusses his experience playing the role of Bozo.

Creator(s): Bob Salsberg, author; South Coast Today, publisher

Keywords: Bozo, entertainment, Frank Avruch, press coverage

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Slideshow narrated by Mike Spock, discussing the primacy of play in Children's learning.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: play, mike spock, learning, slide show

Date Original: August 1968

Description: Discussion of the Children's Museum and their philosophy for educating children, as well as the development of MATCh boxes.

Creator(s): Phyllis D. OConnell, author; Boston, publisher

Keywords: press coverage, museum philosophy, MATCh boxes

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A practice transaction at the Children's Store exhibit.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, Children's store

Date Original: 1970

Description: Children making purchases on the see-through cash register in the Children's store.

Creator(s): Leon Kunstenaar, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, play, learning, Children's store

Date Original:July 24, 1994

Description: "Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand." Proverb found on a daily calendar dated Friday, July 29, 1994.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: proverb, museum philosophy, learning

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Kids climbing on an outdoor rope apparatus.

Creator(s): Nava Benjamini, photographer

Keywords: exhibit, audience, play, climbing

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock tells one of his favorite museum stories from his childhood and how it affected his museum work as an adult.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibits, childhood, Mike Spock

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A child interacting with a piece of plastic in the Colors exhibit.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, audience, learning, children

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A child interacting with a piece of plastic in the Colors exhibit.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, audience, learning, children

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A child interacting with a piece of plastic in the Colors exhibit.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, audience, learning, children

Date Original: January 1970

Description: In this exhibit review, the author comapres the Algonquin Wigwam and the Oversized Exhibit. Document also includes a hand-written letter from a volunteer and a list of BCM exhibitions 1913-1986.

Creator(s): Margie Kitchen, author

Keywords: exhibits, volunteers, reviews

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Photograph of Cynthia Cole.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; portrait; visitor; staff

Date Original: 2000s.

Description: Excerpt from an interview of a manage's meeting in which managers discuss characteristic of the museum and its products, museum philosophy and values, creating curriculum and other programming, and how to attract kids to come and learn at the museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: museum philosophy, values, education, curriculum

Date Original: 2000's

Description: Video excerpt in which Elaine Gurian talks about her unconventional job interview with Mike Spock.

Creator(s): Elaine Gurian, speaker; Carol Yourman, video editor

Keywords: anecdotes, Mike Spock, Elaine Gurian, personnel

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Frank Avrush and Mike Spock are pictured with two Boston firemen.

Creator(s): Joel Hoo, photographer

Keywords: museum staff, visitors, community relations

Date Original: 2004

Description: Promotional postcard, 'From the Classroom to the World: Hine, Ulmann, Strand, Arbus and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School,' an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society.

Creator(s): New York Historical Society, creator

Keywords: exhibits, museums, New York Historical Society, retrospectives

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The Giant's Desktop exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibits

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A young child playing with a spinning wheel in the exhibit.

Creator(s): Michael Pierce, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, Grandmother's Attic, interactive

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A young girl's attention is grabbed by the Grandmothe's Attic exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibits, interactive

Date Original: 1978

Description: Kids playing with the Grandmothe's Attic exhibit's stove.

Creator(s): Joel Hoo, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, interactive

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The Grown-ups and Kids exhibit at the Visitor Center.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibits, visitor center

Date Original: 1969

Description: An act, sponsored by Mr. James J. Craven, Jr., which provided free admission to the Children's Museum to school groups and teachers within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: legislation, admission, schools, education, community relations

Date Original: n.d.

Description:A child exploring the exhibit How Movies Move .

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: How Movies are Made, exhibits, animation, audience, children

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Visitor Center movie viewer in the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibit; photograph; film; display; examination; demonstration; visitor

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Young and old visitors enjoying themselves at the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; exhibit; films; movement; visitors; elderly; children; teenagers; photograph

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A boy at the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; visitor; exhibit; film; education; demonstration

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A young girl enjoying the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibit; photograph; film; display; examination; demonstration; visitor

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Children looking at the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; exhibit; films; movement; children; visitors; photograph

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Children enjoying the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; exhibit; fims; movement; visitors; photograph

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; exhibit; films; movement; visitors; photograph; development

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Two boys examine a zoetrope animation machine in the How Movies Move exhibit.

Creator(s): Mike Sand, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, audience, children, animation. zeotrope

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Pigs from the Zoetrope exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; image; graphic; zoetrope; movement; demonstration

Date Original: 1956

Description: If I Ran the Circus, a Children's story by Dr. Seuss.

Creator(s): Dr. Seuss, author; Random House, publisher

Keywords: book; story; publication; circus; children; education

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock with his family in the Japanese House exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: portraits, Spock, Japanese House

Date Original: 1950's

Description: Judy Spock with the Dayton Museum Collection.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: photograph; picture; black and white; artifact; collection; management

Date Original: 1955

Description: Mike Spock discusses life growing up with the famous Dr. Spock in the Dayton Daily News.

Creator(s):Betty A. Dietz, interviewer; Mike Spock, interviewee

Keywords: article; periodical; publication; interview; photograph

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Invitation to Lilo, the Shoe Boy exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: postcard; invitation; exhibit; education; development; culture; activity

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Fred Kresse talks about the values and standards associated with the MATCh box kits.

Creator(s): Fred Kresse, speaker; Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: MATCh kits, museum standards, learning

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The contents of a MATCh box listed by Fred Kresse.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: kit; box; match; rental; list; activities

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A young boy blowing bubbles.

Creator(s): Jeremy Berndt, photographer; Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; bubbles; activity; education; fun

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock and some young visitors.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; visitors; education; field trip; activity; staff

Date Original: to be entered

Description: Mike Spock and Kevin White at City Hall.

Creator(s): Photo Service, photographers; Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; portrait; staff; city hall

Date Original: to be entered

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Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock in repose.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; portrait; photograph; staff

Date Original: 1950

Description: Mike Spock with his high school swim team circa 1950.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: education; extracurricular; activity; athletics; staff; memories; awards

Date Original: 1950's

Description: Mike Spock (center) with teammates from the high school swim team.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: education; extracurricular; activity; athletics; staff; memories; awards

Date Original: July 18, 1943

Description: Mike Spock writes to his parents from camp in the 40's.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum; Mike Spock, author

Keywords: staff; memories; letter; child; education

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Two men, Henry Hall and Bobby Walker, attempting to carry a mounted moose head through a doorway.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; black and white; staff; animal; prop

Date Original: May 1968

Description: Interview with Mike Spock in Ladies' Home Journal on his experiences being raised by the famous Dr. Benjamin Spock.

Creator(s): Diane Lurie, interviewer; Mike Spock, interviewee; Ladies' Home Journal, publisher

Keywords: article; report; interview; childhood; family; staff

Date Original: May 7, 1966

Description: The Saturday Evening Post talks about Dr. Benjamin Spock and his family life.

Creator(s): Robert K. Massie, author; Saturday Evening Post, publisher

Keywords: interview; article; exploration; development; family; home; staff; medicine

Date Original: 1975

Description: Instructions with illustrations for making paper 'movie machines'.

Creator(s): Bud Wentz, author; Troubadour Press, publisher

Keywords: mini- unit; diagram; instructions; movies; film; craft; activity; exhibit

Date Original: 1955

Description: Dr. Benjamin Spock talks about advocating parent/child association from early on.

Creator(s): Dayton Daily News, publisher

Keywords: article; interview; parenthood; psychology; medicine; news

Date Original: 1995

Description:Birdscope article about Charles Walcott's retirement as Lab Director.

Creator(s): Jim Gallagher, author; Birdscope, publisher

Keywords: article; interview; career; perspective; retirement; ornithology

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Obituary for Paul Dietrich, the Cambridge 7 partner in charge of Visitor Center renovations.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum; Boston Globe, publisher

Keywords: obituary; staff; career; impact; renovations; leadership; visitors

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock and Phyl O'Connell in black and white.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; black and white; staff; portrait

Date Original: January 19, 2006

Description: Documents and letters about Phylis Morrison.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: collection; paper; documents; letters; correspondence; records

Date Original: 1960's

Description: Phyllis Morrison showing a young visitor how to use a blow drill.

Creator(s): Jerry Berndt, photographer; Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; staff; exhibit; tools; visitor; child; education; activity

Date Original: 01/01/1969

Description: Disussion about the Boston Children's Museum in the New York Times.

Creator(s): Lisa Hammel, author; New York Times, publisher

Keywords: article; development; interview; staff; exhibit; newspaper; play; education

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The Reflections exhibit.

Creator(s): Phyllis Morrison, photographer; Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: picture; photograph; exhibit; reflections; visitors; staff

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Five scanned pages from Richard Scarry's Dictionary.

Creator(s): Richard Scarry,- author and illustrator

Keywords: animals, books, Children's art, literature

Date Original: March 7, 1949

Description: Details of Mike Spock's swimming achievements in theRochester Post-Bulletin.

Creator(s): Rochester Post-Bulletin, publisher

Keywords: Mike Spock, newspaper articles, swimming

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Ruth Green appears before an open dollhouse.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: portraits, dollhouse

Date Original: 1960

Description: A girl tests out a pair of traditional snow goggles.

Creator(s): Mike Sand, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, interactive, audience, children

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock talks about his experiences growing up as the son of a famous child psychologist.

Creator(s): Mike Spock, speaker; Carol Yourman, videographer

Keywords: experience, reminiscence, childhood

Date Original: May 21, 1963

Description: The New York Post Daily Magazine profile ofMike Spock and his younger brother as they discussed their experiences growing up with Dr. Benjamin Spock for their father.

Creator(s): Jerry Tallmer, author; New York Post Daily Magazine, publisher

Keywords: Spock, press coverage, profile, biography

Date Original: 1968

Description: The Spock family from the youth section of Time in black and white.

Creator(s): Time Magazine, publisher

Keywords: picture; photograph; portrait; family life; relationships

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Photograph of the Spock family taken on the Thimble Islands.

Creator(s): Irve Wood, photographer

Keywords: portraits, Spock

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Highlights from Mike Spock's days as a champion swimmer.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: swimming, Spock, childhood, biography

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Jennifer Merrill and a young boy using scissors and other common household tools.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibits, interactive, audience

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock welcomes everyone to the Boston Stories project and invites feedback in the video interview.

Creator(s): Carol Yourman, videographer/editor

Keywords: welcome, Boston Stories Project, introduction

Date Original: n.d.

Description: The Children's Musuem signage.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: facilities, signs, marketing

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A boy holding a giant balloon in front of a Children's Musuem billboard.

Creator(s): Mark Silber, photographer

Keywords: advertising, community outreach, public relations

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Mike Spock explains how he came to this realization and how it helped him explain the museum's purpose to others.

Creator(s): Mike Spock, speaker

Keywords: museum philosophy, education, audience, children

Date Original: 1969

Description: Discussion of how children interact with exhibits that present material in a specific order, and how the Boston Children's Museum worked with a focus group of children to revise some of their exhibits to better suit audience needs (108 pages).

Creator(s): Dr.Elizabeth H.Nicol, author; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Office of Education, Bureau of Research, publishers

Keywords: reports, exhibits, research, audiences

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Historic image of the south facade of The Metropolitan Museum.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: historic buildings, New York, Metropolitan Museum

Date Original: n.d.

Description: "Sketchbook" comic depicting similarities of kitchens and museums.

Creator(s): Roz Chast, artist

Keywords: comics, museum philosophy

Date Original: 2004

Description: Discussion of the role of museums, and addressing the question of whether they are educative or aesthetic institutions (8 pages).

Creator(s): George Hein, author

Keywords: community relations, museum philosophy, education, society

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Adult visitors to the museum interacting with an exhibit in black and white.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: audience, adults

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A child interacting with the traffic light in the Visitor's Center.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: audience, children, Visitor's Center

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A line of children waiting to get inside from outside the Visitor Center.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: children, visitors, Visitor's Center

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Children and adults gathering to participate in a program activity at the Visitor Center.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: visitors, audience, interactivity, Visitor's Center

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Kids standing in front of a funhouse mirror inside the Visitor Center.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: exhibits, visitor center

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A group posing in front of a billboard during the opening of the Visitor Center.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Visitor's Center, events, staff, audience

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Excerpt from a video interview with Mike Spock discussing his experiences roaming New York City as a youth.

Creator(s): Mike Spock, speaker; Carol Yourman, videographer

Keywords: interview, New York, childhood, biography

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Children and a parent exploring the Weighing exhibit.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, interactivity, audience, children, visitors

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Weights in the Weighing exhibit.

Creator(s): Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, weighing

Date Original: n.d.

Description: A young boy uses a hanging scale to weigh objects.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: audience, interactivity, exhibits, children

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Children use scales in the Weighing exhibit in black and white.

Creator(s):Phyllis Morrison, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, audiences, children, visitors, interactivity

Date Original: February 20, 1963

Description: A biographical sketch inLook Magazine about Dr. Benjamin Spock, renowned child psychologist and father to Mike Spock (7 pages).

Creator(s):Gereon Zimmermann, author; Look Magazine, publisher

Keywords: biography, Dr. Spock, Mike Spock

Date Original: 1963

Description: A boy experimenting with a light bulb.

Creator(s): Ed Fitzgerald, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, audience, visitors, ineractivity

Date Original: 1963

Description: A child watching a mechanic work on the underside of a car.

Creator(s): Michael Pierce, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, visitors, audience, interactivity

Date Original: 1963

Description: Children climbing out of a culvert in the What's Inside? exhibit.

Creator(s): Ed Fitzgerald, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, visitors, audience, interactivity

Date Original: 1963

Description: A young child looking through a storm drain.

Creator(s): Michael Pierce, photographer

Keywords: photograph, children

Date Original: 1963

Description: Children enjoying the What's Inside exhibit.

Creator(s): Ed Fitzgerald, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, What's Inside

Date Original: 1963

Description: A boy watching a mechanic work under the hood of a car.

Creator(s): Michael Pierce, photographer

Keywords: exhibits, visitors, audience, interactivity

Date Original: November 8, 1968

Description: ATime review about new exhibits at the Boston Children's Museum and Mike Spock's role in the museum's new direction.

Creator(s): Time, publisher

Keywords: biographical, public relations, articles, press coverage