Growing Up with Books
Dr Valentina Bold FSA Scot FHEA
Heritage Manager at the Scottish Women's Institutes and Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh?
I'm delighted, as a founder member of SELCIE (Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative) alongside Sarah Dunnigan, to be part of the Growing Up With Books team.
Over the last two years, SELCIE has been working together with the newly refurbished Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh and, in particular, with curator Lyn Wall, exploring the beautiful and rare books in the Museum's collection.
The result is an exhibition, 'Growing Up With Books, which explores the history of children's literature, and the child reader, in Scotland, jointly produced through the hard work of a team of postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh.
The exhibition opens on the 1st of June and runs through the summer, with some fantastic associated events. For further information on the exhibition team, and its creative processes, see the latest SELCIE blog, from our artist-in-residence, Danielle Howarth. On its associated events see Edinburgh Museums' Exhibition and Events Guide.