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> Judy,
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> At the Dallas Museum of Art we are just beginning to develop a suite a
> applications to teach kids about ancient Egyptian life and culture.  One
> piece will introduce children to hieroglyphics and let them translate some
> basic words (including their first name).  After they successfully
> 'decode' the glyph writing (it will be configured to be a 'no lose' type
> of activity), they will receive a laser printed certificate as an expert
> egyptologist or something similar.  We are planning to install this first
> in our children's gallery area, and later move it to a new interpretive
> area near our Egyptian Gallery.
>
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> On Mon, 13 Jun 1994, Judith Koke wrote:
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> > A colleague in the Programs and Interpretation dept
> > of the Art Gallery of Ontario is researching gallery games
> > for programme development.  We'd love to hear from
> > galleries/museums that have interesting ideas for
> > activies in gallery spaces that stimulate creative
> > thought.  Our focus is obviously art, but we're
> > interested in any activity that takes place in museum
> > spaces and engages kids and objects!
> > I'm not sure who else would be interested, so reply
> > to list or my address specifically.  We'd be glad to
> > share info collected! This should be fun!
> > Judy Koke
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