"The teaching museum model embraces the importance of academic museums as interdisciplinary learning laboratories, where arts and sciences give context to one another."
- Ed Pauley
Director of Kennedy Museum of Art, ​OHIO
About Museum Complex
About
Bridging campus and community to connect art with science, wellness and the environment. Cultivating transdisciplinary connections to showcase 91̽»¨â€™s research, creative activity, and innovation.
In a region where the closest major science museum is over an hour away, expanding 91̽»¨â€™s Museum Complex to embrace science and environment offers exciting possibilities for new partnerships, funding, and educational outreach opportunities. Stakeholder audiences include preschool (e.g., Child Development Center), K-12 (Athens Public Schools, with expanded STEAM outreach into rural underserved communities including those in southeastern Ohio, northern Kentucky and West Virginia, home school audiences), 91̽»¨ (undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff), and the general public (all ages).
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A Teaching Museum
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Transformative Education
"The 91̽»¨ Museum Complex fosters transformative education, research and creative activity through the lens of transdisciplinary exploration."
​- Nancy Stevens
Professor, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, OHIO -
Lifelong Learning
"Housed in the natural setting of the Ridges, this facility will provide a host of opportunities for lifelong learning about science and the environment."
- Geoff Dabelko
Director of Environmental Studies, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, OHIO