Somebody hire a production crew (or Vive La Youtube!)
By Regan Brooks

There have been a lot of articles being bandied about in various museum forums recently, and though the subject matter is one that has worn a bit thin with museum staffs everywhere, it is still no less relevant: how to maintain relevance in our exhibits and programs and engage modern audiences effectively. Or, in other words, how to not be viewed as a dusty old relic that their grandmother might have enjoyed, keep an audience with the attention span of a goldfish fully engaged and heaven forbid, maybe actually ed-u-mah-cate the little dears.

There are many different theories and twice that many ideas. Some seem to work, some not. I won’t bore you with the details, though I will admit it is something that our staff does talk about on almost a daily basis. One of the best ideas for the teaching of history I’ve seen in a long time comes from two actual high school history teachers in Hawai’i. Think of it as “pre-test Cliff Notes edu-tainment.”

New Spin on an Old Revolution!