Science and Technology Centers

by Victor J. Danilov

In recent decades a new kind of educational institution had become popular and successful in the United States: the public science and technology learning centers. Many of these institutions include the word "museum" in their names, but they have little else in common with the traditional museum. They are populist, interactive facilities designed to expose the inner workings of natural phenomena and man-made processes, alive with moving gears and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262040689
• ISBN13: 9780262040686
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 366 Pages