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Peer reviewedWasserman, Burton – School Arts, 1973
Article discusses the photography of Paul Strand and describes an exhibition of some abstract expressionists. (GB)
Descriptors: Art, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression
Peer reviewedFlanagan, Cathleen C. – RQ, 1973
Unusual societies, e.g., The Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial, listed in the British Museum Catalogue intrigued this author. (3 references) (Author/SJ)
Descriptors: Catalogs, Foreign Countries, Museums, Organizations (Groups)
Peer reviewedHoulihan, Patrick T. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1973
The activist roles museums can play in furthering educational opportunities for American Indians is described. (FF)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Educational Facilities, Museums, Resource Centers
Turtiainen, Onni – Adult Education in Finland, 1973
More than thirty cities and towns in Finland maintain municipal theaters as a part of the growing program for local cultural activities. (GB)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cultural Activities, Drama, Film Production
Peer reviewedOppenheimer, Frank – Physics Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Museums, Newsletters, Physical Sciences
Wasserman, Burton – Sch Arts, 1970
An exhibit of plastic works was planned and presented to identify the emergency of a "Plastic Ethic" in Art. (EJS)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Creative Art, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedDickson, David – Science, 1983
Amid controversy, a former Paris slaughterhouse is being converted into one of the world's largest science museums. The museum will be organized into four major sectors corresponding to different levels at which science and technology touch human lives: exploring, using/producing, living/inhabitating, and communications. The controversy related to…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Facility Planning, Foreign Countries, Museums
Peer reviewedHarris, Nini – Childhood Education, 1983
Briefly reviews the history of the first kindergarten system in the United States on the occasion of the transformation of the Des Peres School in St. Louis, Missouri, into a museum and library. The transformed facility contains a restored kindergarten classroom, the Susan E. Blow museum, local historical and educational archives, and meeting…
Descriptors: Educational History, Historic Sites, Kindergarten, Library Facilities
Angier, Natalie – Discover, 1983
The Computer Museum in Marlborough, Massachusetts houses old and not-so-old calculators, famous old computers and parts of computers, photographs and assorted memorabilia, computer-generated murals, and even a computer made of Tinkertoys that plays tick-tack-toe. The development of the museum and selected exhibits is described. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computer Graphics, Computer Science, Computer Science Education
Peer reviewedNewman, Ian M. – Journal of School Health, 1979
Natural history museums are ideal places to supplement the teaching and learning of health. (MM)
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Field Trips, Health Education, Museums
Modern Schools, 1977
A new addition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, is much quieter because of the special sound-absorbing wall louvers in the air intake and exhaust system. (Author)
Descriptors: Acoustic Insulation, Arts Centers, Facility Expansion, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKarwatka, Dennis – Technology Teacher, 1997
Describes how the British use museum visits as an opportunity for young people to place themselves in a wider context of time and place while learning about their technical heritage. (JOW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips, Foreign Countries, Museums
Paskin, Norman; Canos, Jose H.; Jaen, Javier; Lorente, Juan C.; Perez, Jennifer; Rinehart, Richard; Smith, MacKenzie; Barton, Mary; Branschofsky, Margaret; McClellan, Greg; Walker, Julie Harford; Mass, Mick; Stuve, Dave; Tansley, Robert; Mitchell, Steve; Mooney, Margaret; Paynter, Gordon W.; Mason, Julie; Ruscheinski, Johannes; Kedzierski, Artur; Humphreys, Keith – D-Lib Magazine, 2003
Includes five articles that discuss copies in terms of metadata and digital rights management; safety oriented systems, a new type of decision support systems; MOAC (Museums and the Online Archive of California); DSpace, an open source digital repository; and iVia, an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. (LRW)
Descriptors: Decision Support Systems, Electronic Libraries, Internet, Metadata
Peer reviewedSterman, Nanette T.; Allen, Brockenbrough S. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1991
Describes the use of computer-based tools and techniques in museums. The integration of realia with media-based advice and interpretation is described, electronic replicas of ancient Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum are explained, examples of mediated exhibits are presented, and the use of hypermedia is discussed. (five references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Hypermedia, Interactive Video, Multimedia Instruction
Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1989
The Dallas Science Place contains 55 interactive displays on observable phenomena, organized into 7 topic areas: motion, waves, matter, electromagnetism, energy, change, and entropy. Attempts were made to keep the exhibits' forms elemental, so that the underlying physical phenomena could be readily observed and experienced. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exhibits, Museums, Physics
