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The Manual of Museum Learning
Author(s): Barry Lord
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
- Publication Date: 10 May 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 324 pages
- ISBN-10: 0759109702
- ISBN-13: 9780759109704
Book Description
This manual is a practical guide to creating successful learning experiences in museums and related institutions such as public galleries, exhibition centers, science centers, zoos, botanical gardens, aquaria, and planetaria. Based on an understanding of museum learning as an experience that occurs within a personal, social, and physical context, it explores why, for whom, and how these contexts can be orchestrated in museum galleries with optimal results.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Supplies practical information, such as where to find appropriate facilities, and how to evaluate success. Diplo: Towards more inclusive and effective diplomacy, February-March 2008 The Manual of Museum Learning offers insights and concrete suggestions based on current realities. The contributors provide perspectives of well-respected practitioners who offer both a solid basis for current practice, and support for new ideas to implement in the future. The high level of discourse delivers a manual that should be shared across the museum, not read only by those involved in programming or education. — Lesia Davis, executive director of the Campbell River Museum, in Muse The writing aims to be practical…useful for those in museums to create more effective organizations. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through professionals. — K. Marantz CHOICE
About the Author
Barry Lord is co-founder and director of Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management, the world’s largest firm specializing in the planning of museums and related cultural institutions.
