> I have to agree with Jill Keehner - I was a curator and am now an educator - all museum's should be focused on object or collection based learning.  Just to be contrary, there wouldn't be a museum without visitors either!  The relationship between our collections, whether they be art, history or science - and the visitor is what makes the museum experience!

And it definitely goes for art, too!

I also want to comment on the concept of helping the visitor understand what a museum is and does - it should be part of the experience, perhaps not the focues but certainly, the visitor should leave knowing what a museum is and a better process of the scholarship that occurs in the museum.  For example, we try to teach people how a curator looks at art as part of the process of helping them build a relationship with the pieces in our museum.

Kathrine Schlageck
Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University

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