ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what photographs can tell us about child visitors to the museum. It suggests that they can tell us quite a lot: about the child's own previous experiences, about the social dynamics of the museum visit, and also about the researcher's own role within the process of data collection. Whilst photographs provide us with 'snapshots' of a museum visit, it became clear that these snapshots should not be seen as single, fleeting moments of the child's museum visit. The children are visiting the museum within the social context of their families, and other members of the group influence many aspects of the children's lives, including their interests and areas of focus within the museum. Interviewing in the museum space meant that the interviews themselves became a part of the overall museum visit, rather than a separate post-visit 'reflection' phase.
