IAAPA Attractions Expo 2016

Robert Mac West
Consultant, Informal Learning Experiences
Informal Learning Experiences, Inc.


Robert “Mac” West of Informal Learning Experiences has been involved with informal education in museums and other attractions for more than thirty years. In addition to his teaching experience in the Biology Department of Adelphi University (NY), and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he chaired the Geology Department of the Milwaukee Public Museum (WI) and directed two major science museums, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (PA) and Cranbrook Institute of Science (MI). He has been active as an AAM MAP site visitor, as an ASTC Full Member site visitor, as an AAM accreditation evaluator, and as a consultant to museums, scientific associations and funding agencies throughout the U.S. and internationally. His background as a university teacher, scientific researcher, and museum programmer and administrator equips him uniquely to work with various issues, ranging from feasibility, evaluation and governance to finance and development to programs, exhibits and collections. He oversees the Traveling Exhibitions Database on the ILE web site and coordinates and moderates the Traveling Exhibitions Forum at ASTC and AAM conferences. ILE is in its 23rd year of publishing the Informal Learning Review.He currently serves on the board of the National Center for Science Education and the Rocky Flats Museum. He recently served as a Fulbright Specialist for the Sri Lanka National Science Foundation, helping develop that nation's first science center.

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