Children's Museum: Critical Analysis of the Exhibit.
For many young children, family visits to local science museums or zoos are commonplace events in their lives. The increasing popularity of science museums as sites of choice for family recreation and learning is affirmed by the surge in construction of new children's museums and continued increases in science museum attendance rates in the U.S. (Association of Children's Museums, 2009). Children's museums commonly include exhibits that focus on both sciences content and process skills. In 1975, there were approximately 38 children's museums in America while 243 exist today. Furthermore, an additional 78 children's museums are currently in the planning stage throughout the country.
Similarly, museum attendance in the U.S. has increased to the point where it is estimated that one in five Americans visited a science museum in 2008 (Association of Science and Technology Centres, 2009). Families account for more than half of science museum visitors and many science museums have developed special exhibits and programming for young children. Such exhibits and programming are costly investments for both science museums and families on tight budgets in these economic times. I recently visited one such museum exhibit with my family. This is a description of my visit to a children museum exhibit.
Children's Museum Exhibit Design.
The design of the Museum Exhibit is an important part of the exhibit. Museum professionals including designers, educators, and evaluators strive to develop exhibits that "do more than entertain" (Allen, 17-33). The design of this exhibit was user friendly as stated by Allen who provided her perspective on recent design and evaluation research at her science museum. She discussed many examples of how exhibits were designed and redesigned to facilitate science learning and the types of learning outcomes that were studied. Allen identified four characteristics of successful educational exhibits: immediate apprehend ability, physical interactivity, conceptual coherence, and broad appeal. These four characteristics mainly stem from a user-cantered design approach and efforts to make the conceptual foundations and applications of exhibit content explicit to visitors.
The Children Museum exhibit enhanced my knowledge as well as provided recreation. The design of this exhibit was multi-sided (i.e., exhibits included three dimensional components), multi-user...
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