ABSTRACT
In recent years, the emphasis has moved from education, which implies museums teaching things to children, to learning, which implies individuals of all ages using the museum for their own benefit.
Moreover, museums have benefited greatly from research into how people learn. This research is still developing very fast, and much of what we think we know now may change; the insights of neuroscientists studying the human brain will greatly help educational psychologists studying how people learn in general, and how people learn in museums in particular. However, most recent research has been carried out in the West and we need to understand whether people in different cultures learn in the same way.
