Looking for a reason to leave work early on Friday?  Take the afternoon
to pause and consider the history and direction of the role of education
in museums at:

"Museum Practitioner Seminar: Retrospection with Reflection"

WHERE: Board Room, American Institute of Architects
1735 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC

WHEN: Friday, March 13, 1998, 1:00-4:00pm

METRO: Street parking is very limited.  Garage parking is nearby.  The
closest Metro stations are Farragut West (blue/orange lines) and Farragut
North (red line).  The AIA Headquarters building is located directly
behind the Octagon Museum and across the street from the Corcoran Gallery
of Art.

Co-sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable and  The George
Washington University Museum Education Program, with support from the
Marcella Brenner Endowment for Museum Education.

MER and the Museum Education Program celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the Museum Practitioner Seminar with two special sessions in 1998 and
1999.  The program's inaugural speakers will reflect on their earlier
thoughts, documented in Roundtable Reports (now the Journal of Museum
Education), vol. 5, no. 3, 1980.  Program materials include reprints of
this issue and recent papers of the presenters.

MARCH 13, 1998 PROGRAM SPEAKERS:

Dolo Brookings, Professor, Arts Administration, California State
University, Dominguez Hills (Carson, CA)

Elaine Heumann Gurian, Acting Director, Cranbrook Institute of Science
(Bloomfield, MI)
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MARCH 1999 PROGRAM SPEAKERS:

Alberta Sebolt George, President and CEO, Old Sturbridge Village
(Sturbridge, MA)

Thomas Schlereth, Professor and Director, Graduate Studies in American
Studies, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)

Program fee, including materials: $12 members; $17 non-members.
Materials only (available from the MER office): $7.50 plus $2.50 postage
and handling.

For more information or registration materials, please contact Michelle
L. Craig, MER Program Chair at (202) 336-5928 or [log in to unmask],
or the MER office at (202) 547-8378 or [log in to unmask]  Information can
also be found on MER's website:  http://www.erols.com/merorg/.