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21/3 1978 Space, Time, and Family Interaction: Visitor Behavi or at the Science Museum o f Minnesota CYNTHIA A. CONE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KEITH KENDALL, STUDENT DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY HAMLINE UNIVERSITY “Where did you go? ” “To t he museum.” “What did you do there ?” There is increasing interest today in museums as learning environ- ments rather than as repositories of artifacts. This shift in concern raises questions about how visitors respond to museum displays. Since most people visit museums accompanied by others, such questions necessaril y in vol ve the examination of group inte raction. This report is the summary of the results of research on visitor behavior in the anthropology hall of the Science Museum of Minnesota, designed and conducted by a group of students and us at Hamline University. Our interest was in the movement and inter- action of family groups in th e hall. S pecifica lly, we wanted t o determine what attracted their attention and if family members interacted differently depending on their generation and sex. On a Saturday and Sunday we observed twenty-six family groups for the entire time they spent in the anthropology hall. Because the analysis of th is sample suggested disti nct variations in the behavior o f family

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