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The following books and articles have been chosen as they were helpful to us in our project on learning more about designing family friendly exhibits.


Exhibits, Labels, and Family Learning Reading List

 

Adams, Marianna, Jessica Luke, and Theano Moussouri. "Interactivity: Moving Beyond Terminology," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 47 No. 2, (2004): 155-170.

   
 

Allen, Sue and Joshua Gutwill. "Designing with Interactives: Five Common Pitfalls," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2, (April 2004): 199-212.

   
 

Ash, Doris. "How Families Use Questions at Dioramas: Ideas for Exhibit Design," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, (2004): 84-100.

   
 

Borun, Minda and Jennifer Dritsas. "Developing Family-Friendly Exhibits," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 40, No.3 (1997): 178-196.

   
 

Borun, Minda, Margaret Chambers, Jennifer Dritsas, and Julie Johnson. "Enhancing Family Learning Through Exhibits," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 40, No.4 (1997): 279-295.

   
 

Borun, Minda, et al. Family Learning in Museums: the PISEC Perspective. The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1998.

   
 

Dierking, Lynne, Dale McCrady, Diane Frankel, and Leslie Adelman. "Facilitating and Documenting Family Learning in the 21 st Century," Current Trends in Audience Research and Evaluation, Vol. 15, (May 2002): 62.

   
 

Jones, Mika Cohen, Lynn D. Dierking, John H. Falk, Leonie Rennie, and Carol Scott. "Interactives and Visitor Learning," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2., (April 2004): 171-198.

   
 

Kelly, Lynda, Gillian Savage, Janette Griffin, and Susan Tonkin. Knowledge Quest: Australian Families Visit Museums. Sydney and Canberra, Australia: Australian Museum and National Museum of Australia, 2002, Chapter 5 and Appendix 1.

   
 

McManus, Paulette. "Families in Museums," in Roger Miles and Lauro Zavala (Eds.)., Towards the Museum of the Future: New European Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 81-97.

   
 

Moussouri, Theano. "Family Agendas and Family Learning in Hands-On Museums." Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Leicester, UK, 1997. (Can be obtained through inter-library loan with the University of Leicester Library, Leicester, UK).

   
 

Pinus, Diana Alderoqui. "Look Again!: Planning an Exhibition with Social Interaction in Mind," The Journal of Museum Education, Vol. 25. Nos. 1-2. (Spring 2000).

   
  Rheame Paul H. "A Hands-on Approach for Don't Touch Exhibits," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1988): 96.
   
  Screven, Chandler G. "Visitor-Based Exhibit Planning: A Question of Survival," in C.
   
  Scott (Ed.) Evaluation and Visitor Research in Museums: Towards 2000. Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 1995, 81-82.
   
 

Serrell, Beverly. Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, Sage Publications, 1996, Chapters 4, 10,12,15.

   
 

Serrell, Beverly. "Paying Attention: The Duration and Allocation of Visitors' Time in Museum Exhibitions," Curator: The Museum Journal. Vol. 40, No. 2 (1997): 108-125.

   
 

Spock, Dan. "Is it Interactive Yet?" Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2004): 369-374.

   
 

Van Balgooy, Max A. "Hands-on or Hands-off? The Management of Collections and Museum Education," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, (1990): 125.

   
 

West, Robert. "The Economics of Interactivity," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2, (April 2004): 213-223.

   
 

Wood, R. "Families," in Gail Durbin (Ed.) Developing Museum Exhibitions for Life Long Learning. London: Museum and Galleries Commission, 1996, 77-82.

 

 


 

 

   
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