Interdisciplinary, Just Like Children
Children explore and perceive the world unfettered by the boundaries of disciplines and categories; they care equally about questions like "Why were illnesses invented?", "What would it be like to be a carrot?", "Why do we often have pain in our legs when we grow?" and "Can people with dementia tell dreams and reality apart?".
In addressing health, the museum embraces children's inherent interdisciplinary perspective and willincorporate insights from various sciences while paying equal attention to both statistically common experiences and individually unique health journeys.
Museum Developed with Children
There is no shortage of museums created by grown-ups, which is why we involve children in developing the content of the upcoming Museum. We learn about their experiences, identify questions they are curious about, engage them in content creation and testing, and we have comissioned anthropological research to understand children's experiences and perceptions of health. As we develop the content of the Children’s Museum, we are on the lookout for points of intersection between children’s interests, expert knowledge and values that are at the core of the collection of the Medicine History Museum.
Discussing Health
By placing contemporary knowledge and technologies alongside insights documented in the history of science, we will show health as an evolving set of concepts. In promoting health literacy, we are guided by the belief that understanding and curiosity about life processes—both within the body and beyond—are more effective motivators for caring about health than instructions and warnings. The Children’s Museum will invite everyone to see themselves as the shapers and beneficiaries of health on every level: individually, communally and globally.
The Venue
The Children’s Museum will be housed in the extension of the original historical building; the reconstruction project was designed by architect Brigita Bula and her team. The reconstruction will provide a contemporary learning environment featuring an exhibition hall and a multifunctional classroom-laboratory, as well as the auxiliary rooms and a lift for accessibility to both floors.
The Children's Museum will open to the public in 2027.
Partners:
Ministry of Health
LSM
School "Domdaris"
Association "Collective"
Children's Clinical University Hospital
Medical Museum Support Fund Society
Supporters:
AS "Swedbank"
ESF Plus
Informative contributors:
AS "Delfi"
AS "Diena"
White Label
The Children’s Centre for Health Literacy: Children’s Museum project is co-funded by the European Union (ESF Plus Project No. 4.1.2.1/1/24/I/002). The project’s total available funding amounts to EUR 1 250 000, including EUR 1 062 500 funded by ESF Plus and a EUR 187 500 co-funding from the state budget.
