We took trips to the art museum, history museum, science museum, NASA, and took every opportunity to practice and rehearse math skills, science skills, history, geography, and all matters of curriculum, in the most relaxed and painless way.
The study, financed with a $750,000 grant from the federal Department of Education, examined students in the third, fourth and fifth grades in two schools who made regular, structured visits to the museum, comparing their skills with those of students in three other schools who did not.
An online survey assessed the degree to which museum professionals possess skills in these topics, perform work in these topics, and consider these topics important for future study.
Somewhere in the museum of obsolete athletic skills — home to the spitball, the skyhook, and the Statue of Liberty play — a special wing will have to be set aside for tennis.
The Atkinson, Merseyside A local Merseyside museum celebrates the artistic skill of Bessie Downes.
So technicians at the museum, working with the skill and patience of reconstructive surgeons, assembled a full skeleton from the exact casts of fossil parts from several specimensfound in Europe and the Middle East.
"Le XVIII au Goût du Jour," or "A Taste of the 18th Century," showing through Oct. 9, is the latest work from Olivier Saillard, the scholarly but light-handed curator and director of the Musée Galliera, Paris's fashion museum, who has the skill to make yesterday's clothes seem relevant for today.
But novelists and poets bring along, to the gallery or museum, a particular set of skills.
Translated by Caterina Mongiat Farina and Geoff Farina, it is at once an eminently wise and useful manual, and a museum of dying or obsolete skills.
Another example of a very successful talking robot with no real linguistic skills was the "museum tour guide" Rhino (Burgard et al. 1999).
For up to two hours, doctor and nurses explore the galleries of the museum in order to build skills that will enrich their practice back at the hospital.
