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Hi Matthew,
Thanks for posting.  I hadn't seen it, and I wondered what happened with the research.
C
On Sep 1, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Matthew White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Try:
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> Rader, Karen A, and Victoria E.M Cain. "From Natural History to Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science and Nature." Museums and Society 6, no. 2 (2008): 152 - 171
> 
> Available as PDF: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/radercain.pdf
> 
> Here is the abstract:
> 
> This paper explains how and why many American museums of science and
> nature moved away from the traditional content and methods of natural history
> in the period from 1930 to 1980. It explores diverse motivations for the shift from
> dead, stuffed displays to live, interactive exhibits, and the consequences of that
> shift for museums as both educational institutions and as institutions of research.
> Ultimately, it argues that debates over museums’ content and display strategies
> drew strength from and reinforced a profound transformation in the institutional
> history of twentieth-century American science and technology: namely, the
> separation of research and public education. By the late 1960s, the American
> museum landscape had been transformed by this development. Older natural
> history museums competed for visitors and resources with ‘new’ style science
> museums, and although both remained popular cultural institutions, neither had
> achieved a coherent new institutional identity because debates about the role of
> the museum in science continued. Thus, we suggest, in the mid-twentieth
> century natural history and science museums were more important in both the
> history of biology and the history of science’s public culture than has previously
> been acknowledged.
> 
> There are lots of great articles on specific museums and education/display. There was also a special section of the History of Science Society's Journal Isis  on the history of science and museums. The  full reference is: Isis, Vol. 96, No. 4, December 2005
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Matthew White
> 
> 
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>> I am co-teaching a course at Penn this year entitled "The Informal Learning Experience" (which is WAY COOL!!). I am looking for one or two articles (not books) about the history/evolution of science museums. Any suggestions?
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>> Nancy
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