Meeting the audience challenge in the 'Age of Participation'

This paper explores the nature of a 'participatory museum experience' targeted at twenty-first century core audiences. It highlights the holistic nature of the museum visit; emphasises the importance of matching lifestyle expectations; argues for the central role of social interaction; prioritises the process of learning over outcomes; and both defines participatory exhibits and provides a preliminary typology. It concludes with a brief discussion of the root and branch transformation of museum structures implied by a participatory, social interaction-based approach

The Real Story of One of America’s Greatest Men

This is an advertisement for the Reader’s Digest publication, Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl Sandburg. This advertisement was published in 1972. The front of the advertisement features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5661/thumbnail.jp