July 16, 2008

• Children's Museum Needs Space to Open

  Architecture and Play: Learning from Children’s Museums includes tours of children's museums to give designers insights into any building intended for children, including child care centers and schools.  Experiences such as this helped Marcy Deeds, a self-proclaimed “museum junkie,” and her husband, Jonathan, of Napa, California, create a plan for a hands-on discovery place for children called Scientopia Discovery Center, according to a recent article in  The Napa Valley Register. (…)

June 4, 2008

• Arts Make You Smart

  The findings of research show that there is a relationship between arts training and the brain's ability to learn in other domains such as memory and observation and math and literacy skills.