Museum 2.0
MARCH 12, 2014
You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? When we received the award, we felt a great sense of opportunity and responsibility, since this was the first NSF-funded research study about bilingual families and their experiences in fully bilingual exhibitions.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 18, 2015
We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. How are Workshop locations selected? The first one was in the Mission.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 15, 2010
Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. Trying to cover it up or smooth it out in favor of "best practices" does a disservice to the museum and the audience.
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