George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum

The Textile Museum will design a new interactive Learning Center gallery as part of its relocation to the George Washington (GW) University campus. The Learning Center will provide hands-on and technology-enhanced interaction to promote understanding of the textile arts and their connection with world culture, history, economics, mathematics, and other disciplines. It will put the learner at the center through self-guided activities and serve as a resource for museum educators. The museum will work with an advisory group of potential users and content experts to design the Learning Center, drawing on new technology and research, and lessons learned from its existing activity gallery. The museum will engage GW museum education degree candidates to conduct front-end evaluation to help ensure it meets audience needs and engage interns from the education department, helping to train the next generation of museum professionals.