Museum Education

The development and implementation of educational programs for diverse audiences, including tours, workshops, and outreach programs.

What is museum education?

- "Museum education is a specialized field devoted to developing and strengthening the education role of informal education spaces and institutions such as museums."

Which organization identified the educational role of museums as crucial?

- "In a critical report called Excellence and Equity published in 1992 by the American Association of Museums..."

What did the report consider as museums' core service to the public?

- "...the educational role of museums was identified as the core to museums' service to the public."

How has museum education evolved?

- "As museum education has developed as a field of study and interest in its own right..."

What has been done to strengthen museum education's position?

- "...efforts have been made to record its history and to establish a research agenda to strengthen its position as a discipline in the wider work of museums."