Museums are spaces for the representation, creation, and dissemination of images, discourses, and imaginaries. All of this is produced in their galleries, both by their objects and discourses, as well as by the arrangement, selection and ways of representing them. Therefore, the possible approaches to analyse and deconstruct the museum and its collections can arise from multiple angles, including spatial and visual composition. This article aims, in an exploratory manner, to deconstruct the museum in relation to its spatial arrangement by analysing seven objects from the permanent exhibition of the National Historical Museum related to childhood. Childhood is chosen as a theme as it is often underrepresented, with few objects in the exhibition, in order to explore how the positioning and distribution of these objects might contribute to their limited visibility. Finally, the potential of this approach will be discussed through the analysis of exhibition politics and poetics, and the hidden curriculum, in order to consider how certain distributions, positions, modes, and forms of displaying objects might influence what is narrated, represented, and perceived in the exhibition spaces.