Learning in Your Own Backyard: Place-Based Education for Museums

July 1st, 2005 | RESEARCH

This article highlights some of the diverse ways that different types of museums use place-based education to further their missions and benefit their audiences. Authors include Janet Petitpas, Assistant Director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Maggie Russell-Ciardi, Education Coordinator for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Lori Salles, Exhibit Manager at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park, and Mary Jo Sutton, Director of Exhibitions at the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

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Team Members

Janet Petitpas, Author, Bay Area Discovery Museum
Maggie Russell-Ciardi, Author, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Lori Salles, Author, Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Mary Jo Sutton, Author, Bay Area Discovery Museum

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Publication: Exhibitionist
Volume: 24
Number: 2
Page(s): 49

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Audience: Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | Education and learning science | Geoscience and geography | History | policy | law | Social science and psychology
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Programs | Park | Outdoor | Garden Programs | Parks | Outdoor | Garden Exhibits | Public Programs