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For example, as of 2021, the Birmingham Museum of Art offers reciprocal benefits through international and regional programs. [11] Art museums associated with colleges or universities have organized a College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program (CUAMRP, previously called the Academic Art Museum Reciprocal Membership program).
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
The Sue & Frank Mayborn Natural Science and Cultural History Museum Complex (abbreviated as MMC) is a 142,000-square-foot (13,200 m 2) facility that opened in May 2004 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
The Smithsonian Affiliations program was established in 1996 by Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman [3] [4] with the approval of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in response to several challenges the Institution faced at the time: a decrease in federal funding, limited storage space for expanding collections, and the need to make the Institution more reflective of the nation without ...
Physics First is an educational program in the United States, that teaches a basic physics course in the ninth grade (usually 14-year-olds), [1] rather than the biology course which is more standard in public schools. This course relies on the limited math skills that the students have from pre-algebra and algebra I.
The DPG actively participates in communication between physics and the general public with several popular scientific publications and events such as the "Highlights of Physics" [25] which is an annual physics festival organized jointly by the DPG and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This festival is the largest of its kind in ...
The Association of Children's Museums (ACM) is a Washington, D.C.–based organization that represents more than 300 children's museums in 23 countries throughout the world. [1]
The AIP was founded in 1931 as a response to lack of funding for the sciences during the Great Depression. [3] The AIP was founded in 1931 at a joint meeting between four physics societies: the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Society of Rheology.