Museum education

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Growing up in Santa Fe with an artist father, I experienced my fair share of galleries as a child. My dad would drag me along Canyon Road on nights with lots of gallery openings, and my attention would be held for about 0.2 seconds in each space before I got restless. It must have paid …

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What is the job of a museum curator? What responsibilities do they have? How do they create exhibits for the museum? Find out all this and how to create your own exhibit at home!

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I once imagined fixing up a simple outbuilding, no bigger than 15’x15’, where I could bring together small, personal exhibits simply for the enjoyment of gathering and organizing lovely, unusual, treasured, or found objects. I could sense the pleasure of being absorbed in finding ideas from objects collected on walks over years and years, bringing out old fabric buried in family trunks, revisiting my childhood rock collection, or showcasing friends’ artwork. In my mind’s eye, I could picture…

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Museum-kits were originally devised to cover the needs of schools in remote parts of Greece. They were designed as early as 1987 with the aim of bringing the world of museums closer to pupils and their teachers. Each Museum-kit focuses on a particular subject and contains copies of artifacts, teaching material, slides, photographs, books, and educational games.

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