• Part 1 Preface with Acknowledgments and CreditsPart 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Chapter 1: Adult Learners: Unique Audience, Unique OpportunityChapter 4 Chapter 2: Soul-Searches to Socials: Types of Museum Programs Being Offered to Adult LearnersChapter 5 Chapter 3: Program Planners' PerspectivesChapter 6 Chapter 4: The Instructor's PerspectiveChapter 7 Chapter 5: Program Participants Speak OutChapter 8 Chapter 6: Designing Excellent Learning Experiences: A Twelve-Step ProgramPart 9 AppendixesPart 10 ReferencesPart 11 IndexPart 12 About the Authors

Museum program planners and visitor studies professionals should turn their attention to this milestone book.... Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiences is an important addition to the visitor-studies literature.... The integration of adult-education and visitor-studies theory, illustrated with the rich description of real participant experiences, provides a useful and readable resource for adult program planners, museum evaluators and informal-learning researchers....it is a notable addition to the literature of museum education and a well deserving addition to your professional library.