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Left Coast Press, Inc. is pleased to announce:
Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions
Edited by D. Lynn McRainey and John Russick
334 pages, $34.95 paperback (15% discount on web orders at www.LCoastPress.com)
Sure to inspire and motivate museum professionals, this essential new book provides practical tools for creating meaningful and memorable connections to the past for children. This vital museum audience possesses many of the same dynamic qualities as trained historians—such as curiosity and empathy for the human experience—yet traditional history exhibitions tend to focus on passive looking in the galleries, giving priority to relaying key messages through written words. The top museum professionals who contributed to Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions clearly respect their target audience of children—their developmental stages, learning preferences, and ability to contribute to the interpretive experience. The authors provide new ways of thinking about museum work, including evaluation, label writing, interactive elements and exhibition development and design. This book provides guidance and insight to any museum that recognizes kids as an important audience and is ready to engage them with meaningful and accessible exhibition experiences
Authors include: Phyllis Rabineau, Sharon Shaffer, Elizabeth Reich Rawson, Anne Grimes Rand, Robert Kiihne, D. Lynn McRainey, Daniel Spock, Jon-Paul C. Dyson, Benjamin Filene, Leslie Bedford, Andy Anway, Neal Mayer, John Russick, Mary Jane Taylor, Beth Twiss-Houting, Judy Rand, and Gail Ringel.
For additional information, including and excerpt and the table of contents, and to place your order, visit our website at
http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=222
ISBN: 978-1-59874-382-1 (hardcover); 978-1-59874-383-8 (paperback)
PRICE (15% discount on web orders at www.LCoastPress.com):
$34.95 U.S., $41.95 Canadian (Paperback)
$89.00 U.S., $107.95 Canadian (Hardback)
“I can’t wait to have this book in the hands of my students! This amazing group of authors presents the most current research and innovative thinking. The breadth of examples and frameworks solidly place kids as a core and not peripheral museum audience. The authors speak to each other and build on each other’s work, creating a wonderful conversation with a coherent message. They don’t just advocate, they provide concrete guidance, models and powerful examples drawn from theory, research and practice. This book goes beyond the audience of kids and the discipline of history, and is extremely valuable for exhibit designers, educators, evaluators, curators, administrators and any museum professional interested in how to make the museum more engaging for kids.”
—Kris Morrissey, Director, Museology Graduate Program, University of Washington
“In this solid, helpful and readable book there is not a hint of apology that play and fun are anything but the real work of connecting kids to history. Grounded in current research, stuffed with telling examples, organized around the logic of how exhibits are actually imagined and brought to life, this collection of essays will be useful to all of us trying to understand the theory and processes of creating experiences that appeal to and absorb kids, or for families looking for ways to share in each other's enthusiasms, or in support of teachers looking for insights to bring back to and chew on in their classrooms. And there are productive things to mine, not just for history museums and historic sites, but for art, science and children's museums too. What a wonderful addition to our professional literature.”
—Michael Spock, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
"This invaluable compilation of essays introduces museum practitioners to foundational principles of childhood development; translates how the inherent skills and interests of children—from imagination to play—can be applied to historical exploration; and then demonstrates the practical application of this information into exhibition development. Beyond its focus on kids, I found the book a great reminder of the importance of creating exhibits for PEOPLE, and putting our visitors at the center of museum experiences."
—Lori Fogarty, Director, Oakland Museum of California
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Stefania R. Van Dyke
Museum Studies and Practice
Left Coast Press, Inc.
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