“…Instead, he makes sense of the museum by moving through it, engaging equally with the stairs, furniture, lighting and windows that frequently captivate young children in museums spaces (Hackett et al, 2018), as well as certain of the objects and cases that make up the museum collection itself. Wallis and Noble (2022) describe a relationship between children's movement through and in the museum and their sense of belonging in the space, arguing that children enter into dialogue with the building through traces, movement and mark making, as a way of developing a sense of belonging and ownership in cultural settings. This is a different kind of scenario to the one described in the paragraph above; rather than seeing objects and knowing the information about their relevance as a path to connection and belonging, fleeting movement and gesture via "footprints and pathways that the children (re)create, depict, extend and continue the dialogue with the museum space" (Wallis and Noble, 2022), enabling an attending to children's preferred modes of making sense of the space.…”