Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? 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

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. Trying to cover it up or smooth it out in favor of "best practices" does a disservice to the museum and the audience. But that's only part of the story.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41