Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? Investigation of these questions.

The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings t

Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful

Teach. & learn. in non-school settings such as museums is a topic of increasing interest to researchers in psych, educ (sci, art, soc stud), cog sci, and to spe

In the first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, Falk and Dierking present research findings to demonstrate people's motivations for visiti