Practicing Museums

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 ...

Museums teach evolution.

Natural history museums play a significant role in educating the general public about evolution. This article describes Explore Evolution, one of the largest evolution education projects funded by the National Science Foundation. A group of regional museums from the Midwestern United States worked with leading evolutionary scientists to create multiple permanent exhibit galleries and a curricul...