What is play?

In designing exhibits, we often want visitors to play and use their imagination. Its when the playful exploration starts to flow that learning and inspiration can happen.

This little tot is in the grove of things.

NPR Story Aired tonight

"On a recent evening, 100 museum professionals gathered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., to hear a lecture — not about funding, or curatorial responsibility — but about games. It's time to "turn visitors into players," Jane McGonigal told them...."

Click below for the link


Interactive Games Make Museums A Place To Play : NPR

InformalScience web site

While browsing through the Museum 3.0 site I came across a reference to this site. Very similar to the Exhibit Files but with an emphasis on informal learning and science. Welcome to InformalScience | HOME

"When I performed on television I shook my pelvis"

The Wax Museum is "a 4th grade project where students study a historical person and prepare a speech recounting their subject’s life. The students then dress up as their historical figure and share their speeches. This is Elvis!!!"

Museum Educators -- check out more on the Teacher Tube site while you are there. Great insight on what teachers do and want in their museum visit.

Elvis's life in 4 minutes, my teacher never did cool stuff like that, we only got to cut out dinosaurs out of paper.

Watch:

TeacherTube - Wax Museum - Elvis Presley:

On-Line Exhibition Awesomeness

The National Library of Ireland is offering a virtual tour of the exhibition “The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats” on the award-winning Yeats Exhibition homepage.


Click here to see more, beautiful to look at.

link

After you look at it for awhile, tell me,

Is it based on a real 3-D exhibit or just built to look like that.

need to find out more, props on the meta-data.