Selected Articles

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Framing Possibility - Exhibition Budgeting
By Milton McClaskey

Article on budget strategy, management and cost estimating for exhibitions.  

 

The Informal Learning Review March - April 2006, Number 77. Informal Science Inc., Washington, DC, pages 19-23.

Report concerning excessive design, ineffective evaluation and fostering creativity in three new (2002) European science centers.

  The Informal Learning Review November - December 2003, Number 63 Informal Science Inc., Washington, DC  
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  The Informal Learning Review January-February 1997, Number 22 Informal Science Inc., Washington, DC, pages 1, 13-15.  
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  Collective Vision, Starting and Sustaining a Children's Museum Mary Maher, Editor, Association of Youth Museums, Washington, DC, 1997 pages, 243-246.  
 

The ASTC Newsletter July-August. 1994, Volume 22, Number 4 Association of Science Technology Centers,. Washington, DC, pages 9-12.

 
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  Elaine Heumann Gurian, Editor, American Association of Museums, Washington DC 1995, pages 77-101.  
Hand to Hand Volume. 2, Number 2
 

Linda R. Edeiken, Editor, The Children's Museum Network, Salt Lake City, UT, 1988 page 7.

 
The Exploratorium Quarterly Volume 9, Issue 4, 1985
 

The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA pages 14-15.

 

A Partial Listing of Consulting Reports, Presentations and Documents

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A Vision for phaeno's Exhibitions

July 2004, 2 pages

 

 

Cultivating Creativity Anecdotes and Comments on Creative Institutional Environments

Invited guest speaker to present a formal, 1 and 1/2 hour, lecture to researchers, managers, artists and guests at Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, California, November 13, 1998 13 pages of presentation materials, including charts, images and notes.

 

 

Topics and Questions Concerning Exhibit Sales in Non-Profit Educational Institutions

First written April, 1993, revised April 1998, 5 pages.

 

Whose Idea Is It Anyway?

A presentation for the ASTC Conference, St. Louis, MO October 21, 1997, First presented in 1996 and revised. With an annotated bibliography, 9 pages.

 

 

Vision and Leadership: Guest Lecture Notes

Dr. Alan Friedman's class entitled, Directorship in American Museums, Fordham University, NY November 11, 1996, 9 pages.

 

Considerations Upon Acquiring or Creating Science Exhibits

A presentation for the ECSITE conference Cardiff, Wales November 25, 1995, 8 pages.

 

 

Creating a Science Center

An initial presentation for Fundacion YPF S.A. Buenos Aires, Argentina, basic advice concerning the five elements of a science center, Created September 15, 1997, 15 pages.

 

 

Puerto Curioso, Buenos Aires, Initial Considerations

The final report for Fundacion YPF S. A. Buenos Aires, Argentina July 10, 1998, 82 pages with complete customized, computerized financial model, 79 pages.

 

 

Issues in Contract Negotiations for Interactive Science Exhibits

A document prepared to assist and advise a client in purchasing science exhibits. November, 1993, 11 pages.

 

 

A Few Comments on Costs for Science Exhibitions

Written advice prepared in 1995 concerning the calculation and estimation of costs for science center exhibitions, 4 pages.

 

  A General Discussion of Costs for Interactive Exhibits

A short document on exhibit costs created in 1993 and revised April 8, 1996, 2 pages.p

 

 

A Brief Listing of Some Entry Area Service Requirements

Advice for clients and architects concerning the ordinary and special needs science centers have in their entry areas., July 1998, 5 pages.

 

 

General Issues in the Design of Exhibition Halls

Brief advice for clients and architects, 1997, 3 pages

 

 

Science Oasis, A Report on Elements of The Cairo Meetings

And extensive report concerning the architecture, operations and potential exhibit content for the Science Oasis, Arriyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 15-19, 1993, 27 pages.