Museums make news

Good news on dementia prevalence—we can make a difference

1384 www.thelancet.com Vol 382 October 26, 2013 The fi ndings of the Cognitive Functioning and Ageing Study (CFAS) I and II are unequivocally good news. New data, reported in The Lancet, suggest that the prevalence of dementia in the UK in 2011 was signifi cantly lower than would have been expected based on the estimated prevalence in 1991. For CFAS I, data were taken from three geographical ar...

Understanding Museums - Museums, education and visitor experience

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

Interactive Museums

Hands-on: Museums are no longer somber places housing artifacts that cannot be touched or where monotone, guided tours are organized and pre-determined for you. Instead, they are taking on a role of being entertaining as well as educational. Interactive and multimedia exhibits give visitors the ability to discover and learn at their own pace, plus, they engage individuals, keeping them interest...

Virtual Museums Transnational Network

The origins of museums

crucial point made by Park, however, is that it was not the professionalization of medicine that led to "a system ofmedical practice sophisticated enough to meet the needs of the population as a whole", but "At least in northern Italy, the institutional order of medical practice seems to have constituted itself more quickly than the profession and to have been less disrupted by the Black Death ...