Science Museums as Environments for Learning
DOI: 10.1063/1.881216
A science museum is created by its contents and the activities relating to them. These contents may be historical artifacts, such as a steam engine, or exhibits of natural phenomena, scientific ideas or technological inventions. A museum is an educational county fair, a serious and exciting learning environment where the relationships between one exhibit and the next, and among the exhibits, the visitors and the space as a whole are important. This location‐and‐object specific attribute sets museums apart from other communications media such as television, books and periodicals.
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More about the Authors
Robert J. Semper. Exploratorium, San Francisco.
