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One Size Fits All? Engaging Families in Exhibits

Featured speakers at the November 15, 2011 workshop.

In 2011, the USS Constitution Museum hosted a free workshop for museum professionals to get advice, ideas, models, and inspiration for creating engaging exhibits for an intergenerational audience. Watch the featured presentations by Lynn Dierking, Judy Rand, D. Lynn McRainey, John Russick, and Anne Grimes Rand. You’ll learn simple and effective techniques and come away with low-cost replicable ideas to help you enhance your institution’s interactions with families!

Family Learning . . . Laughing & Learning
Lynn Dierking, Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning, Oregon State University

Connecting Kids to History
Lynn McRainey, Director of Education, and John Russick, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Chicago History Museum

Adventures in Label Land
Judy Rand, Director, Rand & Associates

One Size Fits All?
Anne Grimes Rand, President, USS Constitution Museum

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