Six museum education and learning researchers discuss the need to study how people learn and behave in museums and what kind of current research studies should be undertaken. Mary Ellen Munley, in "Back to the Future: A Call for Coordinated Research Programs in Museums," describes the differences between the terms…

This study explores the primacy of developing a critical pedagogy appropriate for art museum education, with particular reference to the curriculum in the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). To create conditions for a pedagogy which is meaningful to the experience of visitors, the art museum curriculum needs to empower visitors to construct and reflect…

Education is a basic mission of the Nation's 20 "Applied Science" museums, and visiting young people are invited to get into the act. (Editor)

The author applies modern learning and instructional principles to exhibit planning and describes the processes and equipment that might facilitate in that application. (JH)

Describes the Air Force Museum in Dayton (Ohio) and the history behind this present-day educational facility. Gives suggestions for preparing a class for a visit to the museum by previewing what the class will see and generating interest through pre-trip activities. (BR)

Describes the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama as stimulating experience for students in aerospace education. The center has the largest collection of space-age hardware assembled under one roof, a Space Flight simulator, a Skylab space station mock-up and many more interesting exhibits. (BR)

This directory identifies archives, museums, institutes, and other special libraries in Toronto that maintain collections in archaeology, British history, Estonian history, general history, Jewish history, Latin American history, military history, and Ukrainian history. Entries for each site provide addresses, phone numbers, hours, names of…

The booklet describes ways in which museums can supplement classroom teaching from preschool through college levels. Traditionally, teachers have overlooked museum facilities because of lack of motivation, insufficient public education efforts by the museums, or lack of coordination between educators and museum staff. The author sees a need for…

This museum survey furnishes comprehensive information and findings on America's museums. It is hoped that the survey findings will assist museums in assessing themselves as part of a major cultural field, private and public funding sources in determining museum needs, and the public in understanding the role of the museum in community and…

Reported is an investigation of teacher education programs in science museums, program contents, and procedures of planning and implementing, in order to suggest improved ways by which museums wishing to do so can modify existing programs or initiate new ones. Special note was made of the role which science museums have developed and hold in…

Looks at fossil collecting from the viewpoint of the amateur and the professional. (CP)

Visitors to museums and audiences of live performing arts tend to be better educated, of higher occupational standing, and more affluent than the general populace. Recent trends indicate that expansion in the scale of arts activities and government subsidies has not been accompanied by a democratization of cultural consumption. (Author/EB)

Discussed are the major features of a Model Licensing Agreement to be used by museums in any commercial reproduction venture. They include rights and obligations of the respective parties, maintenance of quality control, payment of royalties, arbitration, and termination provisions. The Model Licensing Agreement is appended. (JMD)

The need for museums to become more oriented to the community, particularly to minority groups, is discussed. A museum in the Bronx, New York, created to be a learning center for local children, is described. The Museum's role in learning and in fostering cultural awareness is stressed. (GC)

Describes the Taft Museum In-School program, a cooperative art education project with the Cincinnati public schools which combines a program conducted at the Museum with classroom visits by Museum staff. (BR)