Record details

• ISBN: 0944040322
• ISBN: 9780944040324
• Physical Description: xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Washington, DC: Association of Science-Technology Centers, c1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-187) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Museum Visitors -- Museum Exhibitions -- Teams and Schemes: The Cast of Players -- The Exhibition Development Process -- Doing it Right: Visitor Studies, Evaluation, and Exhibits -- Problem Solving in Exhibitions -- Participatory and Interactive Exhibits -- Labels: The Exhibition Storytellers -- Transforming Space -- On the surface: Color, Texture, Graphics, and Materials -- Lighting the Way -- Museum Exhibitions: Constraints and Opportunities -- Looking at Exhibitions: One Approach to Criticism -- Environmental Considerations: Some Guidelines -- A Selected Bibliography -- Sources for Quotations -- Photograph Credits -- Index.

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Subject:

Science museums > United States > Exhibitions.
Science museums > Educational aspects > United States.
Museum techniques.
United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.