Older mothers make sense when young adults are living with the parents longer. How will this change what museums need to provide in terms of family experiences?
Could the 15% of non-internet users be/become museum visitors? If these people are frustrated by the internet itself, how does this belief play out in our exhibits and programs?
1. Participants were less accurate in recognizing the objects they had photographed compared to those they had only observed
2. Participants weren't able to answer as many questions about the objects' visual details for those objects they had photographed
"I am bothered by the "big box" science centers, $300 million dollar projects seem unnecessary. You could build 100 smaller science centers for the same $300M budget. My thinking behind Science Pop (science center in a box), has grown out of a need for community based science centers."
The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books.
Will this happen to museums too?