An exhibition at the opening of the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City presents the talents of 15 contemporary Native American artists who during the past several years met at four different locations representing the cardinal directions. The exhibit combines sculpture, performance, poetry, music, and video to portray Indian world views…

Synthesizes educational research about learning in interactive science and technology centers, museums, aquaria, and zoos, and distills from it guidelines for science teachers to ensure that class visits enhance the learning for their students. Topics covered include visitor behavior, interacting with exhibits, visit structure, social context,…

Describes a virtual museum tour project developed by Eastview Community School (Red Deer, Alberta) eighth grade students that used telecommunications and multimedia. Discusses the project's educational objectives, methods of collecting information, preparing hypertext documents, writing dialogue, the final presentation, and key components for a…

Describes field trips to urban locations for geological instruction. The program was developed by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Authors claim these field trips have been an effective and enjoyable way of conveying a wide variety of geological information to participants at all levels and backgrounds and have created favorable publicity.…

An article about the Louvre museum includes a map and basic information about building construction, hours and other visitor information, a brief history of the museum, an interview with the director, Michel Laclotte, and a number of art and language exercises focusing on the use of light in painting. (MSE)

Explains the RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archives) project, which was sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities to offer a tool to users to retrieve multimedia information from museum archives through public telecommunications networks regardless of the database type and local area network (LAN) currently used by the museum. (LRW)

Driven by mandates to serve and educate their communities and by political and financial pressures, museum's are seeking ways to alter their so-called elitist attitudes to draw in a more diverse group of visitors than they were able to in the past. Focuses on the Brooklyn Museum. (LZ)

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian discusses the museum's mission to interpret Native American cultures from the perspectives of Native peoples; nontraditional uses of an associated cultural resources facility; the relationship between Native world views and universal values; and programmatic impact on Native…

Presents four classroom lessons designed for elementary and secondary students based on paintings in the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Provides an overall goal, specific objectives, background of the painting, and suggestions for discussion and activities for each painting. Includes full-page color prints of each painting. (CFR)

In today's "politics of culture," American Indians demand participation in decision making on scholarship and exhibitions about their history and culture. Exhibits such as this one at Hampton archives replace generic Indians with people with names and individual histories, and link the history of Indian education with American history.…

Through a story of experiences at a library and two museums, a Cree university student demonstrates how such institutions fail to adequately respect and portray Native culture, despite good intentions. (TD)

Evaluates a teaching initiative that aimed to teach about the Holocaust through a traveling exhibit on Anne Frank. Data from 10 case study schools show the success of the approach and some ways in which the teaching relevance might have been strengthened. (SLD)

The Empire State Partnership connects a school district and museum in implementing a constructivist, interdisciplinary curriculum that addresses state standards through the arts. Formal and informal assessments document students' intellectual growth as well as achievement on the New York State Regents' examinations. (SK)

Examines the sociotechnological impact of introducing collaborative technologies into the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois. Discusses online information technology to support asynchronous collaboration between curators and exhibit designers planning a new museum facility, and building a virtual museum by linking museum databases to…

Reports on the use of simulators to provide students with field trips of the future. This technology offers convincing, real-world, first-hand experiences in a small space within a few minutes. Simulators have found their way into museums and science centers around the nation, although they are still too expensive for most school districts. (SM)