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Rethinking Museum Visitors: Using K-means Cluster Analysis to Explore a...

by AMANDA KRANTZ, RANDI KORN, AND MARGARET MENNINGER Understanding visitors is a necessary and complex undertaking. In this article, we present K-means cluster analysis as one strategy that is...

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The LSIE Report and IMLS: Supporting Learning in the Informal Environments of...

by Marsha L. Semmel Abstract The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has funded hundreds of projects that promote lifelong learning in all disciplines and types of museums and libraries,...

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What are the “Six Strands” for History Museums?

by Mary Alexander Abstract Learning Science in Informal Environments chronicles the state of science learning in museums today. What is known about learning history in history museums? How does the...

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How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work

By Lynda Kelly Abstract George Brown Goode, a former Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian in the late 1880s, said that the nature of museum work is not only knowledge creation, but also knowledge...

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Museums as Restorative Environments

By Jan Packer and Nigel Bond Abstract Restorative environments possess a combination of attributes that facilitate recovery from mental fatigue. Most previous research in this regard has focused on...

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Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

Review of the book by Robert R. Janes By Stuart Davies. Get the full article. Stuart Davies (stuartwdavies@btinternet.com), visiting professor of Museum Studies, Institute of Archaeology, University of...

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The Social Work of Museums

Review of the book by Lois H. Silverman By Vicky Chainey Gagnon Get the full article. Vicky Chainey Gagnon (vicky.chaineygagnon@ubishops.ca), curator, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University,...

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