Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective.

Intergenerational 53

Intergenerational Museum NSF Facilitation 53

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. How are Workshop locations selected?

Green 20

Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

NSF 20

NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. Tags: children's museums design business models. To some extent, it's externally-driven. But that's only part of the story.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41