Hi Bronwyn!  How wonderful that the museum decided to put in study centre!
Can you send me some details?  I really had a great time helping in the
initial planning.

Naming the Smithsonian's study center, the Naturalist Center way back in 1976
was an equally difficult process.  What kind of name would connote what its'
to be used for and is targeted to your core audience... the discovery room is
good for families for example....  If it is for older learners like the
Naturalist Center (restricted to 10 years of age and older, with principle
audience teens and adults) then the title needs to sound a bit more formal
and less cute.

You could simply call it

1. Melbourne Museum Study Centre
2. Melbourne Museum Center for Continuing Study
3. The Answer Place ( a bit cute)
4. The Inquiry Place (also a bit cute, but ok)

or if you can forgive a bit of crass commercialism... "The <benefactor>
Learning Center."  For a contribution of some amount, their generosity gets
recognized...
e.g.  The Bronwyn Thompson Learning Center.


Good luck, and congratulations!

Richard Efthim, Program Director
The Naturalist Center (Centre?)
Smithsonian Institution
741 Miller Drive SE Suite G-2
Leesburg Virginia 20175


Thompson, Bronwyn wrote:

>
>
> The new Melbourne Museum (campus of Museum Victoria) will have what we
> are currently calling a Study Centre (working title). Study Centre
> sounds a little too studious and perhaps off putting to our potential
> visitors, so we are looking for a name that has a little more flair
> and attraction!
>
> Do any of you out there have any bright ideas??
>
> The Study Centre will feature a range of information resources
> available electronically (Internet, web based programs, data bases, CD
> Roms, multimedia with facility to enable videoconferencing, video
> streaming, 3D etc), in comprehensive reference collections, small
> displays and a library.
>
> I look forward to your suggestions you might have!!
> regards
> Bronwyn Thompson

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