According to Kathryn C Boelter:
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 12:24:36 -0500 (EST)
> From: Kathryn C Boelter <kcbF90@hamp>
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> Subject: history of art museum education programs
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> I've been perusing the list for a while, now but I suppose I should
> officially introduce myself with this first message to the list.  I'm a
> student at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and am working on my senior
> thesis concerning education programs in art museums.
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> My first of many questions to come is this:  I've been researching the
> history of education programs in public museums in the U.S.  However,
> I'm finding more information about the history of museums' philosophies
> about education than about the history of museums' educational
> practices. Can anyone suggest sources dealing with the actual practices?
> I'm interested in areas such as when specifically education-oriented staff
> began to be hired, when programs (tours and otherwise) for children were first
> designed, what such early programs intended to teach, etc.
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> Also, I could use info about finding current ideas about the educational
> goals of art museums--what should be taught and how (broad questions, I
> know) kinda thing.  Much of the literature I'm finding is from the 1970s,
> and I'd like to see how much has changed.
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> Even the broadest kind of advice would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks!
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> Katy Boelter
> Hampshire College
> Amherst, MA 01002
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Katy,
        This is pretty basic, but have you included Grace
Fisher Ramsay's Educational Work of Museums in the United
States (1939) and Lawrence Vail Coleman's The Museum in
America, 3Vol, (1939)?  Sorry I dont have the full cites here
with me.  I also have cites from old periodicals ca. 1870-1030
re museum work with schools in the context of the Visual
Education movement if you are interested.
Regards,
        John B. Bunch
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