Museum Studies Guide: Welcome!

periodical that contains new lessons and emerging strategies for evaluating programs and policies, particularly those focused on children, families, and communities.

Publishes the ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums

Group of science-technology centers and science museums, as well as nature centers, aquariums, planetariums, zoos, botanical gardens, space theaters, natural history and children’s museums. Browse the online Resource Center for information on designing effective science exhibits and other topics.

UPCLOSE is an academic home for informal learning, with links to articles, books and researchers in this area.

For researchers, teachers, and professional development specialists from the fields of science, mathematics, history, writing, and the arts.

A resource and online community for informal learning projects, research and evaluation.

Includes Journal of Research in Science Teaching and newsletter

Devoted to saving and preserving America’s historic buildings and neighborhoods. Includes links to current lists of America’s most endangered and distinctive historic sites.

Network for information professionals from museum and cultural heritage institutions

University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

UNESCO and ICOM have jointly produced documents such as Running a Museum: A Practical Handbook

More than 15,000 museum listings & events.

Listings of courses, internships, fellowships, publications, and a gateway to the Smithsonian's Museum Studies Database.

Search millions of records, with links to 138,000 images, video and sound files from dozens of Smithsonian libraries, archives, museums, and specialized research units.

Includes V&A Online Journal, information on visitor research and more.

A professional organization focusing on the visitor experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historic sites, parks and other informal learning settings.

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Online listing of major museums around the world.

Developed in partnership with Professor J. Lynne Teather at the Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto. Search research material on new media, museums, visitor studies, etc. Museum Journal is indexed for the years 1890-1982, among other titles.

Compiled by the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, CoOL is a full text library of conservation information, covering with information on the conservation of library, archives, and museum materials.

Over 25,000 journals, journal articles, books, and reports published are referenced from 1900 to the present. Includes holdings from many international sources such as the UNESCO-ICOM Museum Information Centre, the Library of the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), and the Library of the Direction des Musées de France (DMF).