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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

--- Bill Watson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hello, everyone. I hope you're having a great
> Friday.
> 
> Does anyone have a family guide to your exhibits
> and/or science
> center/museum that you are willing to share or
> describe? How about some
> design and/or content features that seem to be
> particularly appealing to
> visitors?
> 
> I checked the ISEN archives for our discussions on
> Family Guides on this
> listserv in the last 3 years. In 2003, Vicki Coats
> from OMSI sent around a
> request similar to mine. However, people must have
> responded off-list
> because I didn't find any responses in the archives.
> Also, in 2005, Maija
> Sedzielarz from SMM made a similar request. I found
> only one response in the
> archives. Finally, earlier this year, a few messages
> were posted regarding
> studies of the effectiveness of Family Guides, which
> are not exactly what
> I'm looking for this time around.
> 
> So...Vicki or Maija or anybody else: Can you help me
> answer these questions?
> If you prefer to respond off-list, I will commit to
> posting again to the
> listserv with the highlights of the responses (if
> authors are comfortable
> with that).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill

gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] >
NEWS - Astronomy, Space, Science:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#news >
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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