The best things in museums are the windows

By Harrell Fletcher

Subjects: Walking, Hiking, Exploratorium (Organization), Exploratorium Center for Science and Inquiry (San Francisco, Calif.), Exploratorium (San Francisco, Calif.), Alternative education

Description: "The newly established Center for Art & Inquiry (CAI) serves as a research and development engine for the arts within the larger learning laboratory of the Exploratorium. CAI leads the Exploratorium's arts strategy and direction, expanding the museums; focus on art as a medium for exploration, inquiry and discovery. Working with program directors from acros the museum as well as a council of national advisors, CAI oversees the Exploratorium's long-running Artist-in-Residence program, hosts research fellows, and inititates special projects to advance work at the intersection fo art and indterdisciplinary learning"--Page 54. "Walking in this time and place is, among other things, an endeavor to recover an immediate and embodied experience in real space, a quietly rebellious act in an age of privatization and disembodiment. The walk documented in thsi book broke out of the Expl,oratorium in somewhat the way that the Exploratorium broke out of what a museum could be: as a move toward greateder opennes"--Rebecca Solnit, page [4] of cover.