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If, by family guides, you mean guides to the museum
given to families, here are a couple examples from the
late 1980s for Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium
and Institute of Popular Science [a.k.a. in the 1980s
as "Buhl Science Center"]. The Buhl Planetarium and
Institute of Popular Science operated as Pittsburgh's
primary planetarium and physical sciences museum from
1939 through 1991, and as a tutorial center for
Carnegie Science Center science and computer classes
from 1991 through 1994.

Example 1 [1987 July] --
Front:
< http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer1.JPG
>

Rear: 
< http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer2.JPG
>

Example 2 [produced during Buhl's 50th anniversary
celebration in 1989] --

Front:
<
http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer50th-1.JPG
>

Rear:
<
http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer50th-2.JPG
>

gaw


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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:38:15 -0500 
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I am looking for examples and experiences regarding
museum family 
guides.  Our museum is discussing audience, format,
and outcomes for 
family guides.

If your museum or center has a family guide, I would
like to know:
Why did you decide to develop it?

What format is it in?

Have you evaluated the guide?

If you had it to do over, what would you do
differently?

Thank you for any comments or suggestions.

Maija Sedzielarz
Coordinator, School Visit Programs
Science Museum of Minnesota
120 W. Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul MN 55102
651-221-4554
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Explorations - gallery self-guides for teachers and
students
www.smm.org/explorations

gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] > 
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.planetarium.cc > 
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago: 
  < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear: 
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > 
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
  < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc > 
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.incline.cc >


		
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