This paper uses a literature search to survey the philosophy and theory of museum education to determine if Canadian museum educators have identified and articulated the precise nature and purpose of their work. This research paper provides a foundation for the author's work in reviewing the profile of the aging of our current population and their potential for museums. Using a museum program planning approach, the author discusses the museum learning needs of older adults and grounds her work with a case study of the Elderhostel program at the Chicago Historical Society run in the summer of 1993. Ritchie, Elizabeth Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Museum. The author explores the issues of multiculturalism and the museum through the use of a third languages, in addition to English and French, to encourage the inclusion of visitors.
Language can play a valuable role in multiculturalism in the museum but further research is needed.
Working from a theoretical premise distilled from the writings of Antonio Gramsci which presents the museum as an institution of civil society selecting and presenting ideas and images enacted within a larger power system, the author explores the reasons behind the relative absence of the Latino experience in American museums and uses a case study of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and its treatment of Hispanic culture. The Ancient Greek World on Display in the Modern Museum. This research paper explores the museums responsibility in dealing with public perceptions of ancient Greek culture particularly around the biases of both the public and the museum. The author explores various ways in which museum display could more effectively address the biases held by the public and presents a model for archaeological display which can guide such exhibition.