ABSTRACT
Museums and galleries offer a wide variety of learning experiences. Their unique contribution is their emphasis on the development of sensory awareness based on work with real objects. C. G. Jung developed a theory that there are two psychological types with essentially different learning styles: sensing types and intuitive types. The sensing type relies to a greater extent on direct sensory experience. The intuitive type enjoys the complex abstract learning gained from probing the outward appearance of things. Children, being closer to the prelinguistic stage of learning, have a strong preference for learning which has an active element, which engages their senses and stimulates their imagination.
