Tours With Children and Teens: A Handbook for Docents and Guides
by National Docent Symposium Council
This easily digestible book is full of tips and snippets of information designed to help anyone give a better tour to children and teens, regardless of their experience level.
While it might not be the most revolutionary read in museum education, it is helpful, particularly if you are a manager or responsible for training educators and guides. After each chapter, there is space to write notes, so it makes a fantastic training workbook.
In my opinion, it skews heavily toward art institutions, but the principles apply regardless of your museum’s subject matter. It’s biggest value is found in the ready-made suggestions for tour conversation starters. You can literally pull the prompts directly from this book into your tour!
If you are looking for copy-and-paste tour techniques and conversation starters, this is the book you need!
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