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From: Robert A. Baron <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 16, 1998 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Disney...museums & the 21st C



How true.  For Disney-ites, the "techniques & technology" ARE the message.
For museums holding to their mission, they SUPPORT the dissemination of
knowledge.


>Today museum visitorship is at an all-time high (in New York surpassing
>attendance at sporting events!); so I might be forgiven if I claim that in
>spite of it all, museums must be doing something right. It may be that they
>are borrowing techniques and technology from the theme park experience to
>help bring in the masses and to make the museum more accessible, and that
>is fine; but technology alone does not make the experience. However, some
>people on this list talk as if it does.
>
>Robert Baron
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