Understanding Museums - Museums, education and visitor experience
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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 Griffin Family visitors to museums in Australia, Lynda Kelly
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