A study attempted to describe visitors' psychological functioning while viewing museum exhibits. The research was designed to enable a comparison of psychological functioning as viewed by subjects and a researcher. Two sets of data were gathered, the first with 45 visitors (men and women, 25-65 years of age, with various educational levels) to a…

This document is a brochure to guide young children and their parents as they tour a display of glass art works from the Corning Museum, exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Questions are posed about individual pieces and the exhibit in general. Activities for children to do at home also are suggested. (DB)

Discussion emphasizes the responsibilities and sensitivities incumbent upon the museums which display American Indian sacred objects. (JC)

Science museums and popular physics shows often exhibit a blower in whose air stream a ball is held hovering in equilibrium some distance above the jet's orifice. The weight of the ball, "mg," is balanced by the drag force of the turbulent air stream, often written as ?Cv[superscript 2]A, where "?" and "v" are the…

This book focuses on the history of the Statue of Liberty National Monument from 1952 through 1982. It describes how the monument has come to symbolize an expanding set of ideals, how the symbolism has produced responses in various groups of people ranging from celebrations to physical attacks upon the Statue, and the manner in which the monument…

Article considered the museum as a storehouse of facts which are not readily available elsewhere and how to make those facts available. (Author/RK)

Procedures of processing, cataloging, and classification are discussed in detail, and in many cases examples are given. (Author)

A discussion of the use of museums for instructional purposes. (HB)

The central element of this teaching museum is an open sculpture gallery on the third-floor level, beyond the reach of vandals. (Author/MLF)

This paper describes the process of automatic extraction of implicit--global--data from explicit information by file inversion and threading. Each datum is the symbolic representation of a proposition, and as such has a number of movable parts corresponding to the ideal elements of the proposition represented; e.g., subject, predicate. A third…

This report develops a useful definition of museum studies, suggests the content of a curriculum or curriculums for preparing persons for careers in the museum profession, and provides certain museum professional job descriptions of museum studies, and a bibliography and a syllabus of museum studies. (MJM)

Data are presented in tabular and descriptive form regarding the national pattern of museum distribution, including their governing authorities, exhibit subject classifications, and geographical locations. Attention is given to facilities and resources, staff, operating expenditures, attendance, and programs. Some indications of quality in museums…

The INFORMATION exhibition, held in the spring of 1969 at the Museum of Modern Art, was designed to be an international report of the activity of younger artists. In this book, which served as a catalog for the show, each of the 95 artists is represented by a page (or pages) of his own design. On his (or her) page, in addition to the combination…

Presented are the very basic requirements for establishing a small special library operating under a limited budget. Physical plant organization, cataloging, book processing, circulation procedures, book selection and ordering and instructions for typists are covered. Although the practices discussed were established for a museum library, what is…

In this speech, the author traces the history of museums as educational environments by speculating on how history museums have presented themselves to the public through their exhibits. The author also provides an outline of the implications that these methods of presentation have had on visitors. A major objective is to determine how history…