MUSEUMS – PERSPECTIVES

Understanding Museums - Museums, education and visitor experience

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

Interactive Museums

Hands-on: Museums are no longer somber places housing artifacts that cannot be touched or where monotone, guided tours are organized and pre-determined for you. Instead, they are taking on a role of being entertaining as well as educational. Interactive and multimedia exhibits give visitors the ability to discover and learn at their own pace, plus, they engage individuals, keeping them interest...

Archives, Libraries and Museums in the Contemporary Society: Perspectives of the Professionals

The aim of this study is to investigate how ALM professionals conceptualise the common role of archives, libraries and museums (ALMs) in the contemporary society. There is only a little earlier empirical research on the topic. This study is based on a quantitative analysis of the results of a web survey of 131 ALM professionals. The analysis shows that the views of the respondents epitomise div...

Virtual Museums Transnational Network

The origins of museums

crucial point made by Park, however, is that it was not the professionalization of medicine that led to "a system ofmedical practice sophisticated enough to meet the needs of the population as a whole", but "At least in northern Italy, the institutional order of medical practice seems to have constituted itself more quickly than the profession and to have been less disrupted by the Black Death ...