The 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...

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 in the Information Age

One of the first projects, was an outgrowth of the Automated Data Processing (ADP) Committee at the National Museum of Natural History which was formed in 1963. The system that resulted from this project was known as SELGEM which stood for 'Self-Generated Master'. SELGEM used text data fields that were delimited by numeric tags and special characters. The system and the source code were provide...

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