53:4 October 2010
–Sample Content and Subscriptions–
Forum
- Amy Van Allen: Encounters through a Museum Field School
- Lynda Kelly: How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work
Suitcase Notes
- Tom L. Freudenheim: “Starchitecture” and its Drawbacks
Articles
- Jan Packer and Nigel Bond: Museums as Restorative Environments
- Emilio Duran, Lena Ballone-Duran and Jodi Haney: Project ASTER III: A Model for Teacher Professional Development Integrating Science Museum Exhibits with State and National Science Education Content Standards
- Briley Rasmussen: The Laboratory on 53rd Street: Victor D’Amico and the Museum of Modern Art, 1937–1969
Research Report
- Andrew J. Pekarik and Barbara Mogel: Ideas, Objects, or People? A Smithsonian Exhibition Team Views Visitors Anew
Exhibitions
- Jeff Hayward: Connecting a Museum with Its Community
- Carine Ayele Durand: Artistic Practice and (Museum) Ethnography
Digital
- Anne Kahr-Højland: EGO-TRAP: A Mobile Augmented Reality Tool for Science Learning in a Semi-formal Setting
Books
- Andrew McClellan: Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000
- Gary Vikan: The Neural Imagination: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts
- Marlene Chambers: Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature
- Janeen Bryant: Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions

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