The National Air and Space Museum

and the

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies invite you to

 

A Conversation with Kathleen McLean

 

Thursday, May 15, 2:00 - 4:00 pm EST

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 

(Independence Avenue at 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC)

Ring Auditorium

 

Kathleen McLean will speak about what today's museum audiences expect in
an exhibition, current trends in exhibitions from across the nation, and
the future of museum exhibitions. 

 

This event will be web cast live on http://museumstudies.si.edu
<http://museumstudies.si.edu/>   and archived there for later viewing.
There is no charge or registration required for attending or viewing the
program. 

 

Kathleen McLean is principal of Independent Exhibitions, a museum
consulting firm specializing in exhibition development, design,
programming, and strategic planning. From January 1994 through September
2004 she was the Director of the Center for Public Exhibition and Public
Programs at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. Examples of
projects she directed at the Exploratorium include the national
award-winning traveling exhibition, Memory; a visitor/storytelling
research project called Finding Significance; and Seeing, a 10,000
square-foot permanent art and science exhibit installation.

 

For 30 years McLean has designed and developed a wide range of
exhibitions for public audiences in museums of history, art, and
science, as well as interdisciplinary and children's museums. Many of
the exhibitions she has developed focus on social issues and public
response. From 1986 to 1990, she established the first exhibitions
department at The Brooklyn Children's Museum in Crown Heights, New York.

 

In 2006, Kathleen McLean was selected for the American Association of
Museums' Centennial Honor Role, as one of 100 museum professionals to
have made a significant contribution to American museums over the last
100 years. 

 

McLean is co-editor of the IMLS-funded book, Visitor Voices in Museum
Exhibitions; co-editor of the NSF-funded book, Are We There Yet?
Conversations about Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development;
and author of Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions. She was the
exhibition review editor of Curator: The Museum Journal, and has widely
published and spoken on museum design, informal learning, and
exhibitions. She has served on panels and committees of the American
Association of Museums, the Association of Science-Technology Centers,
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Academies of
Science, and the National Science Foundation, among others. 

 

McLean is currently co-authoring a book, funded by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services, on the design of museum spaces.

 

For more information on the May 15 program, contact Tim Grove at
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