Museums Impact on Education

What it is all about:
From Hein and Alexander “Introduction” pp. 9-10:

1) Museums make content and ideas accessible, facilitating intellectual "connections" and bringing together disparate facts, ideas, and feelings.
2) Museums affect values and attitudes, for example, facilitating comfort with cultural differences or developing environmental ethics.
3) Museums promote cultural, community and familial identity.
4) Museums foster visitor interest and curiosity, inspiring self-confidence and motivation to pursue future learning and life choices.
5) Museums affect how visitors think and approach their worlds, in contrast to what they think.