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Museum education falls under the broad category of informal education. Informal education is defined as "...any organized educational activity outside the established formal system—whether operating separately or as an important feature of some broader activity—that is intended to serve identifiable learning clienteles and learning objective". [2]
Barbara Brown Lee was born to Betty and John Brown. Betty Brown had training as an art teacher and shared her love of art with her children. In March 1949, when her family temporary moved to Racine, Wisconsin, she would take art classes, and eventually volunteer, at the Wustum Museum at the age of 9.
The non-collecting museum was renamed to “Frist Art Museum” in 2018. [10] At the museum, Henderson was hired as the Director of Education and Community Engagement and is still employed at the institution. [1] As a part of her position, Henderson assisted in building the Martin ArtQuest (MAQ) space in the museum. [1]
Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957) is an American museum educator and author of the 2020 museum textbook Riches, Rivals and Radicals: A History of Museums in the United States. She is a prolific writer on issues impacting museums, especially those in the United States but also in the United Arab Emirates and other developing nations.
Keynote lecture at the Jewish Museum Berlin: "The Wiring of the Medium May Be New But the Users' Wiring Is Old" John H. Falk interview (2013) "The Five Minute Falk: A very brief explanation of John Falk's Visitor Identity Related Motivations" 21st Century Museum Issues Lecture Series: "The Museum Experience Revisited"
Vasundhara "Vas" Prabhu is the Director of Education at the Farnsworth Art Museum located in Rockland, Maine.She has over 42 years of experience in museum education where she has worked to increase diversity within the field and has been nationally recognized for her pioneering work in education programs particularly family guides and in exhibition interpretation and education oriented spaces ...
Museum docent is a title given in the United States of America to people who serve as guides and educators for the institutions they serve, usually as a volunteer (unpaid) position. The English word itself is derived from the Latin word docēns , the present active participle of docēre (to teach, to lecture).
Scott Winterrowd is the director of the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. [1] Winterrowd has contributed to the field of museum education for more than 20 years working at major art museums in both Texas and California.