Research Catalog

Title

Planning for people in museum exhibitions / Kathleen McLean.

Author

McLean, Kathleen.

Publication

Washington, DC : Association of Science-Technology Centers, ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Association of Science-Technology Centers.

Description

xi, 196 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Science museums > United States > Exhibitions
• Science museums > Educational aspects > United States
• Museum techniques
• Museums
• Science
• Museums
• Science
• museology
• museums (institutions)
• sciences (philosophy)
• science (modern discipline)
• Museum techniques
• Science museums
• Science museums > Educational aspects
• Objeto (museografia)
• Exposicao museologica
• Utställningsverksamhet
• Utställningsteknik
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition
• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0944040322
• 9780944040324
• 944040322 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

94105843

OCLC

• ocm29150444
• 29150444
• SCSB-1601380

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library