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>How do exhibition curators/teams in children's museums interpret
>difficult or sensitive issues for children?

I don't know if anyone from the Children's Museum in Chicago is here, but I
remember a "talk-back board" (I think it was called).  At the top of the
board was a question regarding a particular sensitive issue, and visitors
were asked to respond using the pencils and note paper (maybe 3-M Post-its)
left for that purpose.  I think you had the option of sticking the note on
the board or dropping it in an opaque box.  The board was in a central
"atrium-like" space, clearly visible and accessible, but out of traffic
lines.

There is an article called "Helping Visitors in Potent Exhibits" in Vol. 8,
no 1 (Spring 1994) of the Association of Youth Museums' (AYM) newsletter,
"Hand to Hand."  I have a copy I could send you, but I don't know how well
it would photocopy since it is a photocopy too, and I've written,
highlighted, and underlined things on it.  Perhaps someone from AYM is
here?  If not, let me know and I'll send you what I have.

Sincerely,
Bill Stirrat




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