This resource list is intended to inform teachers of the teaching aids which are available about Eskimos and Indians. It includes the following sections in loose-leaf form for easy updating: bibliography with sub-sections entitled Eskimos, General, Indians of Canada, Indians of Other Regions, Indian Culture, Myths and Legends, Biography, and…

The purpose of this study was to provide the New York State Museum (NYSM) with a profile of its audience during 1966. A total of 1,544 persons were interviewed. Visitors came from seven counties, with Albany accounting for 58%. A comparison was made with Royal Ontario Museum on the basis of group size, sex, age, educational level, occupation, and…

The population for the study consisted of the educational directors of The Museum of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Baltimore Museum of Art, and The Carnegie Museum of Art, and 259 participants in the museum programs for amateurs in art. Nine propositions were used to give information on the structure of the programs. An…

The University of Northern Colorado allowed the Department of Science Education to convert a room into a classroom museum called the Zooroom City. The classroom contains 85 stuffed or injected animals and 30 live animals. The room is used eight hours a day, six hours for college methods classes and two hours for elementary students. Questionnaire…

Included in this bibliography are an alphabetical listing of subject heads used for cataloging material at the Center for Museum Education located on the campus of George Washington University, and an annotated listing of a selection of items processed by the Center related to Museum Education. Topics represented include: (1) Audiences; (2) Arts…

This annotated bibliography provides assistance to researchers in locating manuscripts and archival material on Canadian subjects. Two main sections comprise this guide. The first section lists bibliographies of manuscript and archival collections, annual reports of government archives, and union lists of manuscripts. The bibliographies determine…

This bibliography lists reference sources for research in archaeology. It is arranged in sections by type of reference source with subsections for general works and works covering specific areas. Categorized are handbooks; directories, biographies, and museums; encyclopedias; dictionaries; atlases; guides, manuals, and surveys; bibliographies; and…

Ways in which museums can help the classroom teacher are described. The emphasis is on integrating the museum more fully into the classroom and everyday life. (Author/DE)

Since their establishment in the 1870s, American museums have professed to be educational institutions and have attempted with varying degrees of success to promote aesthetic awareness and visual education. The author reviews past efforts, current issues, and future potentials in museum education. (Author/SJL)

Describes an art museum program that attempts to test and evaluate various tour techniques, to involve schools in preparation and follow-up activities for museum visits, and to prepare and evaluate materials for the schools which could be incorporated into their curriculum. (Author/RK)

Science-related secondary school topics are briefly described. Articles include oceanology, proficiency testing, in-school museums and career education in the health sciences. (CP)

This study examines three critical aspects of the school-visitation programs of art museums in the United States and Europe: the prevalence of volunteer guides and how museum personnel are training them, the ways various museums are involving classroom teachers in the school-visitation programs, and how these programs are evaluated. (Author/RK)

Describes the purposes and programs of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Promotes the Socratic method in museum education. Details the docent training program at the museum. Stresses the philosophy that the object is the message. (CW)

Action that must be taken if art museums are to achieve educational excellence is discussed. Five areas in a museum's operations where decisions and actions are most likely to produce excellence in object-centered education in art museums are examined. (RM)

Describes a project, developed for elementary children, which compares childhood in 19th and 20th century New England. Study begins with patterns and characteristics of contemporary childhood, and proceeds to children taking roles as members of real families from the 1820s in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Use of the living museum, Old Sturbridge…