Good to Grow! Museums

Become a Good to Grow! Museum 
Earn national recognition from ACM and increase your museum’s credibility as a children’s health resource with funders, partners and key audiences.

All Good to Grow! Museums are listed on GoodtoGrow.org and receive a recognition certificate from ACM and a Good to Grow! Museum seal to display in the museum. Good to Grow! Museums may use the Good to Grow! logo on marketing materials and museum Web site.

 

Your first step to becoming a Good to Grow! Museum is to begin the Self-Study process, in which your museum benchmarks its health and wellness efforts and creates a concrete plan for advancing its work.

Congratulations to the first Good to Grow! Museums
In Fall 2008, ACM piloted the self-study with a handful of museums. Four museums earned designation as Good to Grow! Museums based on their self-study scores. At InterActivity 2009, ACM presented them with recognition certificates.

  • Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert (Rancho Mirage, CA)
  • The Children’s Museum of the Brazos Valley (Bryan, TX)
  • Creative Discovery Museum (Chattanooga, TN)
  • Discovery Center Museum (Rockford, IL)

Growing Healthy Museums
A Good to Grow! project, Growing Healthy Museums is funded by a three-year 21st Century Museum Professionals grant from the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS). Growing Healthy Museums is a comprehensive effort to increase children’s museums’ institutional ability to promote and improve health and wellness in the communities they serve.

The Growing Healthy Museums project includes three major components: an institutional self-study and recognition program; a best practices publication of health programs, exhibits and services at ACM member museums; and a post-conference session at InterActivity 2008 and resulting toolkit focused on building healthy community partnerships. These three components complement one another; however, they also represent multiple points of entry for museums at various stages of development and levels of experience around this topic.