This paper surveys research over the past decade on school group visits to museums. By
shifting attention to students' views about field trips, to their socially negotiated learning …

Recently, the concept of olfaction-enhanced multimedia applications has gained traction as
a step toward further enhancing user quality of experience. The next generation of rich …

The first book to take a" visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in
1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand …

The school field trip constitutes an important demographic market for museums. Field trips
enlist the energies of teachers and students, schools and museums, and ought to be used to …

Museum visitors typically look at only about a third of the elements of an exhibition, and often
give only limited attention to those. Can visitors really be getting something worthwhile from …

Museum educators have a longstanding presence in museums and play a significant role in
the institutions' educational agenda. However, research on field trips to science museums …

The authors adapted an experimental design to examine effects of instruction prior to entry
into a children's museum exhibit on caregiver–child interactions and children's learning. One …

How do children begin to make the transition from seeing the natural world to scientifically
observing the natural world? This study explored how differences in parent conversational …

The purpose of this study was to describe and understand the range of outcomes of class
visits to natural history museums. The theoretical framework is based on the multifaceted …

This paper reports on the findings of a case study that investigated the interaction of the
agendas and practices of students, teachers, and zoo educators during a class field trip to a …