Gives instructions on how to acquire, care for, preserve, classify, display, and study animals, plants, rocks, and shells. Also includes ideas for projects, a bibliography, and a list of equipment and specimen suppliers.
Shows some of the ways museum artists prepare wildlife for display, including what materials they use, how they create artificial habitats, and how they build the models.
Explains how to help students create school museums to encourage learning, creativity, and teamwork. Describes a step-by-step approach to museum projects with ideas for addressing content standards, assessing learning, guiding research, promoting teamwork, and using the museum.
A guide to careers in the field of education, presenting an overview of each job along with information on training, outlook, salaries, and related fields, and including interviews with people working in each of the featured occupations.
Text and photographs describe how a museum exhibit, on loan from Australia, is shipped, assembled, and displayed in a Los Angeles museum. Discusses the unique fossils of prehistoric Australian creatures.
Explores different types of museums, tracing their development from private collections to public exhibits and describing directors, curators, trustees, conservators, public relations people, and others who keep a museum running smoothly.
