As a travel author, she knows what makes a museum educational and interesting for adults.

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Though mp3 players and audio cassette guides before them had been used for years, the iPods allow visual content to be shown, offering a new way to deliver in-depth educational content in a museum that has avoided flatscreen panels and even limited the number of explanatory text panels.

WSJ: The Cloisters Opens Up

Proposals include new homes near both grounds and joint facilities for the clubs including a centre of excellence educational facility, a football museum and an event and fan zone.

BBC: The Fan Zone

Supporters of Baroness Thatcher are planning to create a museum, library and educational centre as a permanent memorial to the former prime minister.

BBC: Thatcher memorial library plans unveiled

The idea is to bring the same type of educational experience that visitors would get at the museum but in an app.

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It used to be that Imax meant seeing a vaguely educational movie in a huge auditorium connected to a museum.

FORBES: Bigger Is Better For Imax

Since introducing charges, the Natural History Museum has been able to fund new educational projects, exhibitions, publications and research.

ECONOMIST: Museums

The selection was made by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which also tapped the museum to administer its cultural diplomacy effort known as smARTpower.

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But the Royal BC Museum takes this very seriously and has deployed a string of educational tactics to let the public know but also train its staff.

FORBES: Indoor Location Comes To The Royal BC Museum

The new 68-seat screening room will be used for the Museum's groundbreaking education program Screening America, as well as for other educational programs and public screenings.

ENGADGET: Museum of The Moving Image plans multi-million dollar updates with HD, 3D