ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part explores “what children’s bodies do in places, paying attention to what happens beyond words. In particular, movement through and in place is the foremost way children experience museums”. A place-assemblage is a configuration of relations and noteworthy corners that is altered on an ongoing basis by, say, children hiding, currents of air, sunlight across windows, a family entering into the museum and so on. The part provides at least one example of a line of flight that opened, or could have opened, a transfigured place. It presents an “informal buggy park” that had spontaneously been created by visitors allowing adults “to bring children out of their buggy to the creative play zone.” The part describes a staircase that “held a fascination for the young visitors” to the point that one of the children went down the stairs bumping on her bottom.
