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This practical handbook is a proposal for transforming museum tours. The target audience is museum guides, docents and interpreters who are interested in facilitating conversations about seen and unseen meanings in artworks, objects, and artifacts. The goal is to engage visitors in meaning-oriented inquiry which involves doing and not just viewing creative work.

Grounded in whole to part learning theory and best teaching practices, each chapter includes a tour vignette written as a you are there experience. The vignettesfrom different types of museumsshow guides and docents using diverse strategies that invite readers to assume the role of guide and guest. Meaningful Museum Conversations: Strategies for Guiding Tours also offers an extensive Museum Guide Toolkit that aligns with inquiry thinking, and features recurring chapter sections that include Advice from Museum Guides and Adapting for Differences.

Creating Meaning in Museums

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    A Hardback by Claudia E. Cornett

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      Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
      Published 1/15/2024
      ISBN-13 9781538193679
      978-1538193679
      ISBN-10 1538193671
      Also in:
      Orality / Oral transmission

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This practical handbook is a proposal for transforming museum tours. The target audience is museum guides, docents and interpreters who are interested in facilitating conversations about seen and unseen meanings in artworks, objects, and artifacts. The goal is to engage visitors in meaning-oriented inquiry which involves doing and not just viewing creative work.

      Grounded in whole to part learning theory and best teaching practices, each chapter includes a tour vignette written as a you are there experience. The vignettesfrom different types of museumsshow guides and docents using diverse strategies that invite readers to assume the role of guide and guest. Meaningful Museum Conversations: Strategies for Guiding Tours also offers an extensive Museum Guide Toolkit that aligns with inquiry thinking, and features recurring chapter sections that include Advice from Museum Guides and Adapting for Differences.

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