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Informal science institutions such as museums, zoos and botanical gardens are well known as providing educational experiences and entertainment for individuals, families and organized school groups. In the last decade, much research was carried out in museums, aiming to understand the characteristics of the visit, its motives and impact in terms of learning content, practicing reasoning and developing dialogues among individuals in family groups (Bell, Lewenstein, Shouse, & Feder, 2009). Despite some similar motives for family and school visits to museums, such as having an educative experience and learning new things about science and nature, clear differences were found as well.
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Tal, T. (2012). Imitating the Family Visit. In: Davidsson, E., Jakobsson, A. (eds) Understanding Interactions at Science Centers and Museums. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-725-7_12
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