Museums and the Aging Revolution
Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2001
Guest Editor: Gretchen Jennings
From the Editor
Gretchen Jennings
Museums and Aging: Reflections on the Aging Visitor, Volunteer, and Employee
Nina M. Silverstein with personal narratives by Conrad Garcia and Abraham L. Landis
Abstract: A gerontologist reflection on implications that societal aging may have for the museum field.
Older Adults at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Eleanor Rubin
Abstract: Provides concrete examples of the way in which one museum has worked to address the needs of older visitors, volunteers, and employees.
Presenting Information to Older Adults
Roger W. Morrell and Katharina V. Echt
Abstract: Discussion of age-related changes in vision and cognition and present guidelines in how they might be mediated in the design of exhibitions and of websites text and graphics.
Exhibition Accessibility and the Senior Visitor
Christine Reich and Minda Borun
Abstract: An assessment study on a traveling exhibition called Secrets of Aging, which targeted seniors as potential audience along with the traditional science center audience of families and school groups.
Listening to Voices of Experience: A National Study of Adult Museum Programs
Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer and Robert Fellenz
Abstract: Results of a qualitative research in Adult Museum Programs.
The Museum Experience: One Mature Visitor’s Perspective
Marjorie K. Sheen
Abstract: Harnessing values, respect, and consideration for the mature museum visitor is accorded.
From the Editor-in-Chief
Wendy Pollock
