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Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

140-летиеполитехнический музейConference on the 140th Anniversary of the Polytechnical Museum

Tuesday 11 December 2012

ruben.smit@ahk.nl

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

• Learning• Visitor’s Identities• Case Studies

Children’s Books Museum

Adults Only, Science Museum

Tablets in Maritime Museum

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

• Learning• Visitor’s Identities• Case Studies

“LEARNING IS ME DOING IT MYSELF,

WHILE EDUCATION IS SOMEONE ELSE DOING TO ME…”

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Interactive Museum Experience, Falk & Dierking

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL CONTEXTS STRONGLY DEFINE OUR

MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Learning Cylcle and Learning Styles, Kolb

WE ARE ACTIVE, EMOTIONAL & REFLECTIVE LEARNERS

Why do(n’t) they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Learning Tool Box, Claxton

exploration, investigation, experimentation, use of space and resources

fantasy, visualisation, storytelling, to create and explore hypothetical worlds.

creativity, germination of

ideas

language, reasoning, analyses,

communication.

WE USE CREATIVITY, FANATASY, VISUALISATION AND STORIES TO

ENABLE OUR LEARNING

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Flow Learning, Csikszentmihalyi

Ch a l l e n g e

LOW HIGHS k i l l s

HIGH'FLOW

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Focussed, HappyAnxiety

Stresse

d, Allert

WorryStressed, Sad

Apathy

Stressed,

Depressed

BoredomDepressed, contented

ArrousalAllert,

Focussed

Relaxation

Confident,

contented

ControlHappy, Confident

FLOW LEARNING MAKES US FEEL

HAPPY AND FOCUSSED

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

• Constructivism• Visitor’s Identities• Case Studies

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Visitor’s Identities, Falk

1. The need to satisfy personal curiosity and subject matter interest in a intellectually provocative surrounding.

EXPLORER

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Visitor’s Identities, Falk

2. The need to share a meaningful experience with someone close and important to you in a surrounding that facilitates ‘learning’.

FACILITATOR

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Visitor’s Identities, Falk

3. The wish to connect with things and ideas that are considered as best and intellectually seen most important in a certain culture or society.

EXPERIENCE

SEEKER

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Visitor’s Identities, Falk

4. The need to deepen and strenghten knowlege in a specifially content related environment.

PROFESSIONAL

HOBBYIST

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Visitor’s Identities, Falk

5. The desire to physically, emotionally and intellectually recharge in a beautiful and refreshing surrounding.

RECHARGER

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

• Constructivism• Visitor’s Identities• Case Studies

Tablets in Maritime Museum

Children’s Books Museum

Adults Only, Science Museum

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Tablet Computers in Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK

CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING WITH TABLETS

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

‘Adults Only’ events in Science Museum London, UK

GARANTEED KIDS FREE! ‘ADULTS ONLY’ EVENTS

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Children’s Books Museum, The Hague, Netherlands

COLLECTING WORDS AND WORKSHOP

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

“Museum visitors come to museums and bring the whole of their lives with them.” Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

“People do not come to museums for us. We tend to think that people are there to see the stuff that we’ve got here. But that is not true… They are not coming because of us, they come because of themselves!” John Falk

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

ruben.smit@ahk.nl

Why do they come?Museum Learning at the Core of our Work

Continium Science Centre, Kerkrade, Netherlands

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT & SUSTAINABILITY