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Kavanagh's (1996) valuable extended bibliographic essay on museum study since 1988 emphasizes the increasing importance of educational research and outreach associated with exhibitions and archival management, as well as with museum organization and mission development. Hein's (1998) Learning in the Museum goes into much more detail about why education has achieved an expanded role in museums, including a survey of cognitive- and collaborative-learning theories as they apply to visitor experience and the potential for capitalizing on the cognitive abilities of museum visitors to create an optimal and fully accessible museum experience. In a brief account of an experiment in making observations of visitors to an exhibition as the beginning point for exhibit evaluations Abbey (1986) suggests ways in which experts might reconfigure exhibit choices to maximize learning opportunities. More generally, Berger (1977) explains the variety of ways of learning and seeing the world, to which museum profession
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