Hands on!

Children´s and youth museums offer unexpected possibilities and employunconventional methods to enable children to experience the world. They stimulate curiosity and sensory perceptions along a journey of discovery into the complex conjunctures of life. Touching and doing are notthe exeption here, rather the rule. For the first time, the international spectrumof children and youth museums, museum groups and projects will be earmarked. Scientists and museum professionals fromEurope, USA, Mexico and Israel discuss their goals and work methods. They profile the children´s and youth museum in its conceptual singulaity as a unique place of social learning through play and experiment, as a place of intercultural education through encounter and experience, as a place of lively interchanges, also - and precisely - in the interests of a multicultural society.