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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums. This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. 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.

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