Interactive Learning Environments

Groups of children and adults exploring exhibits in museums, engaging with technology and art, set in modern educational spaces.

Children looking at a museum exhibit

WY, Grand Teton National Park, Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, informational displays

Chip designers at work, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Heritage Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Activities at the 2007 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest at BIG Arts in Sanibel, Florida, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall among the Interior officials on hand to announce the winning entry, a depiction of a pair of pintail ducks by wildlife artist Joe Hautman of Plymouth, Minnesota. Judges for the competition, selected by the Secretary, included wood sculptor and former major league baseball pitcher Jim Sprankle, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Executive Director and former Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Matt Hogan, Springfield, Missouri Arts Council President Jeanie Morris, Smithsonian National Postal Museum Chief Curator for Philately Cheryl Ganz, and wildlife writer-photographer and former Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Eugene Hester.

Anatomy lesson at the University of Veterinary Medicine, TiHo, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

France, Brittany, Rennes on 2022-02-04. The University of Rennes 2 s Free Solidarity Grocery recovers unsold food from supermarkets and uneaten meals from school canteens and distributes them free of charge to students. In this way, they fight both against waste and against student poverty. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Rennes le 2022-02-04. L Epicerie Gratuite Solidaire de l Universite Rennes 2 recupere les invendus des supermarches et les repas non consommees des cantines des ecoles pour les distribue gratuitement aux etudiants. Ainsi, ils luttent a la fois contre le gaspillage et contre la precarite etudiante. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Children controlling software by touch and gestures, touch screen, Ideenpark 2012, technology and education summit conference, Essen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

8-year-old boy visiting a museum.

Showcase with a photo entitled 'Indian-Dutch children from the folk school in Semarang, 1944' and documents; District-Japanese-Indonesians exhibition. Exhibition held in the halls of the Dutch history department.

womens library detail of display cases

The 12 outstanding students selected from the winners of an international science fair tour the Air and Space Museum during their visit to Washington. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

group of schoolchildren in front of the Coromandel screen, late 17th century, China, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, ("Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian"), Lisbon, Portugal.

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Bloomington, Minnesota, for tours and participation in Kids Fishing Day events

Mixed ethnic children students touring Mineral Museum Phoenix, Arizona

Volunteers and staff members at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum work on an extensive inventory and labeling project of the museums library holdings on Monday, April 25, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is one of ten U.S. Navy Museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. The museum is home to a sizeable library holding of volumes related to naval history.

John Henson (grade 12) and Suzi Bryce (grade 10) from DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, conduct a drop with NASA's Microgravity Demonstrator. A camera and a TV/VCR unit let students play back recordings of how different physical devices behave differently during freefall as compared to 1-g. The activity was part of the education outreach segment of the Pan-Pacific Basin Workshop on Microgravity Sciences held in Pasadena, California. The event originated at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The DuPont Manual students patched in to the event through the distance learning lab at the Louisville Science Center. This image is from a digital still camera; higher resolution is not available.

Adult and children view a map exhibit at the Alaska Sealife Center, Seward, Alaska

Descendants of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, the man whom Fort McCoy, Wis., is named after, visit the Fort McCoy History Center on July 8, 2022, during a special visit to the post by the McCoy family. The McCoy descendants visited the Fort McCoy Commemorative Area and all it offers to learn more about their familys military history with the installation.

England, London, Trafalgar Square, The National Gallery, Group of Students

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida sixth-grade students use a computer simulation to practice landing a spacecraft on the moon.Between Nov. 26 and Dec. 7, 2012, about 5,300 sixth-graders in Brevard County, Florida were bused to Kennedy's Visitor Complex for Brevard Space Week, an educational program designed to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM careers.

Information sign in restored textile factory interpretive centre at L'Ile-des-Moulins museum park in village of Terrebonne

The information center at the Mindo butterfly farm in Mindo, near Quito, Ecuador.

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

A Year with Children 2017, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Heidelberg, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany, the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, students prison (Studentenkarzer) bed, Old Heidelberg University

Jim Hahn, a Volunteer Docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provides some meaningful interpretation to visitors who visited the museum. The museum is located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia and is one of ten U.S. Navy museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. The museum is also home to a robust volunteer corps.

Activities at the 2007 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest at BIG Arts in Sanibel, Florida, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall among the Interior officials on hand to announce the winning entry, a depiction of a pair of pintail ducks by wildlife artist Joe Hautman of Plymouth, Minnesota. Judges for the competition, selected by the Secretary, included wood sculptor and former major league baseball pitcher Jim Sprankle, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Executive Director and former Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Matt Hogan, Springfield, Missouri Arts Council President Jeanie Morris, Smithsonian National Postal Museum Chief Curator for Philately Cheryl Ganz, and wildlife writer-photographer and former Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Eugene Hester.

Descendants of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, the man whom Fort McCoy, Wis., is named after, visit the Fort McCoy History Center on July 8, 2022, during a special visit to the post by the McCoy family. The McCoy descendants visited the Fort McCoy Commemorative Area and all it offers to learn more about their familys military history with the installation.

African American mixed ethnic children touring Orange County Regional History Center, downtown Orlando, Florida

USA, Western New York, Buffalo, Museum of disABILITY

Girl sitting in front of wodden tablets of Haiku and Tanka poems. Japanese Village Plaza, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, USA

Boy looking at jar containing a brain

LA Zone Gallery at the Ecosystems Exhibit at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. Los Angeles, California, USA

Canada, Labrador, Hopedale (aka Agvituk) part of the Inuit Land Claims Area Nunatsiavut. Amos Comenius Memorial School.

Group with little children looking at a hot-air balloon, compartment aviation, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, Europe

Students and visitors alike look at the remains of one of the earliest human ancestors, Lucy, on display within the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Rapper and Actor Daniel Curtis Lee performs during the kick off of NASA's Summer of Innovation program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, June 10, 2010. Through the program, NASA will engage thousands of middle school students and teachers in stimulating math and science-based education programs with the goal of increasing the number of future scientists, mathematicians, and engineers.

Dominica, Roseau, schoolboy looking the explanation panel with fishes UNICEF, Dominica Environmental Network, Whale watching

The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California, USA

MSL - Lego Activities

Canada, Labrador, Hopedale (aka Agvituk) part of the Inuit Land Claims Area Nunatsiavut. Amos Comenius Memorial School. Inuit & arctic cultural display inside school, polar bear rug.

Mixed ethnic children interactive exhibit Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center Mobile Alabama

Mixed ethnic children students touring Mineral Museum Phoenix, Arizona

Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest event at Main Interior, with Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett among the Interior officials on hand

vision express (opticians) glasses display and desks

Employee of the Public & Education department and a group of children sit on the ground during a tour; Rows of visitors and crowded in the autumn holiday. .

USA, Kansas, Topeka, Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site, site of school desegregation battles in 1954, Monroe Elementary School, civil rights exhibits

ISU Line of Questions (designed by Planners Collaborative, Inc./depicts a circuit board.) a visual for summer students to find their way around NASA Research Park and to the different venues

Visitor view a data sheet on the display case with coins and tokens. .

Logan Canyon Scenic Byway - FHWA and Travel Writers at American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. Rob Draper chats with travel writers at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville near the Logan Canyon Scenic Byway in Utah. Location: Wellsville, Utah (41.658° N 111.901° W)

USA, Michigan, Detroit. Children working with interactive exhibits at the Science Center

Wall sign and visitor. London Design Biennale 2018, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Various , 2019.

Young wheelchair rider in the smac

Architects discussing project

Germany, Berlin, Kreuzberg, Jewish Museum Berlin, Daniel Libeskind, architect, New Building, learning center gallery

Children with a data sheet about the night watch for the painting; Rows of visitors and crowded in the autumn holiday. .

African American mixed ethnic children touring Orange County Regional History Center, downtown Orlando, Florida

Charles Anderson, Vertex Aerospace, teaches Seth Wilkey, Pilot for a Day, and his family about the parachutes used by Naval Aviators at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi Paraloft, Sept. 20. Pilot for a Day is a public outreach program between Training Squadron 35 and Driscoll Children's Hospital where children experience a day in the life of a Naval Aviator.

Rick Brown, a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, welcomes and orients visitors to their gallery on Friday, May 20, 2022. The museum is one of ten U.S. Navy museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. It is located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia. There is no cost to visit the museum.

Visitors with information sheets for the night watch during the autumn holiday; Rows of visitors and crowded in the autumn holiday. .

CHILDREN AT THE WONDERS OF FLIGHT

Mathematical-Physical Salon in the Zwinger

Rick Brown, a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provides some insights and meaningful interpretation to a group of visitors in their gallery on Friday, May 13, 2022. The museum is located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia and is home to a robust volunteer corps.

Student class in the old school with a globe and an abacus . old school

guided visit, bauhaus school, Main building, Dessau, Federal Republic of Germany.

Congressman Kaiali'i Kahele, right, U.S. representative, and staff are presented a map of Bellows Air Force Station during a visit to Bellows Air Force Station, Hawaii, Nov. 4, 2022. The purpose of the visit was for Kahele to gain a better understanding of Bellows' current use, future use and shared topics of community interest. It was also an opportunity to create an environment for future collaboration, transparency and focused topic discussions.

Art Class

Union Elementary STEAM students take a glimpse into a control room before heading downstairs to see more of the Old Hickory Power Plant in Hendersonville, Tennessee on May 4, 2022.

Canada, Nunavut, Hudson Bay, Kivalliq Region, Arviat. Margaret Aniksak Visitors Centre, educational display about life in the Arctic. (Large format sizes available)

Party of schoolchildren study The Piano Lesson, Henri Matisse, 1916,

Office of Administration - White House Visitor's Center, Secretary's Office

School children on a study trip at the Musee royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Bruxelles, Brussels.

Germany Bathing Württemberg Heidelberg, Student

Descendants of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, the man whom Fort McCoy, Wis., is named after, visit the Fort McCoy History Center on July 8, 2022, during a special visit to the post by the McCoy family. The McCoy descendants visited the Fort McCoy Commemorative Area and all it offers to learn more about their familys military history with the installation.

Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.

School children looking at the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Canada, Nunavut, Hudson Bay, Kivalliq Region, Arviat. Margaret Aniksak Visitors Centre, educational display about life in the Arctic. (Large format sizes available)

Students and teachers tie camouflage nets in a school in Chernowitz. Classes are canceled.

Zach Smyers, a Museum Educator at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provides some meaningful interpretation during a guided tour of the museums gallery. The museum is one of ten U.S. Navy museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. The museum is located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

Historic Maison Tsawenhohi house museum signs tell story of Huron Wendat First Nations couple Paul Picard Marguerite Vincent

Mathematical-Physical Salon in the Zwinger

Jim Caldwell (left) and Jim Hahn (right), both volunteers at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, work on an extensive inventory and labeling project of the museums library holdings on Monday, April 25, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is one of ten U.S. Navy Museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. The museum is also home to a sizeable library holding of volumes related to naval history.

1980s CHILDREN ON CLASS TRIP VIEWING "THE AMERICAS" EXHIBIT AT UNIVERSITY MUSEUM PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA

Rick Brown, a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, welcomes and orients visitors to their gallery on Friday, May 20, 2022. The museum is one of ten U.S. Navy museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. It is located on the second floor of the Nauticus building in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia. There is no cost to visit the museum.

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Places to relax and informational kiosks make for learning experiences at a local zoo. (Editorial Use Only)

Two young students study African artefacts (reconstituted gun sculpture) at the British Museum during the Covid-19 Corona Virus pandemic. 19th September 2020

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Interior Museum exhibits, viewing spaces

Children learn about paintings in Museum de Prado, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

People African American girls interactive exhibit Wonderworks, Orlando, Florida

SPAIN - Catalonia - Barcelona. Capellades; traditional paper mill factory museum; showing students how to make paper at an ancient way

Isometric guide excursion museum background composition with text and indoor view of history museum with people vector illustration

A student at Matthew C. Perry Primary School, left, views artwork with her mother after an art awards presentation at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, Jan. 25, 2024. The air station presented awards for its monthly art competition in which students attending schools at the air station showcase their artistic talent through different art mediums.

8-year-old boy in a game room.

Students and teachers from Ocean View Elementary School progress through the gallery of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum on Friday, December 9, 2022. The group had the opportunity to tour the museums Civil War, Life at Sea, and World War II galleries. They also had the opportunity to tour the museums exhibit The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam, 1950-1975. Ocean View Elementary School is one of over 30 elementary schools serving students who reside in the City of Norfolk, Virginia. The Hampton Roads Naval Museum is one of the museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command. The museum is located in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia and is free to visit.

Northwest African American Museum, South Seattle, Washington State (PR)

Horse stud, stables and tourist attraction at The Suffolk Punch Trust, Hollesley, Suffolk, England

Georgia, Atlanta, Carter Presidential Center, library and museum of former President Jimmy Carter, interior

Department facilities views, for Web use: Bulletin boards

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