In search of relevance: Science centers as innovators in the evolution of museums

Daedalus

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-296

  Koster, Emlyn H ^a  

^a Liberty Science Center   (United States)

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EID: 4043139069     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
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19. Emlyn H. Koster, "Edutainment - To Be or Not to Be?" The Big Frame (Spring 1999): 96.
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