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title: Redefining Museums with Creativity, Innovation & Critical Thinking
description: Dr. Carol Tang, executive director of the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco, discusses building a museum centered on creative engagement.
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# Watch: Redefining 'Museum' with Creative Expression, Innovation and Critical Thinking Skills

Museums need to be that place where society can come together and create things together.

— Dr. Carol Tang

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## What You'll Learn:

- Hear Dr. Tang's experience as a female scientist and how the path to innovation is a creative process in itself
- Learn what you can expect from 21st century field trips and museum experiences
- Discover how experiences that unlock creative, analytical and evaluative thinking link with K-12 classroom instruction
- How to connect with the resources of the Children's Creativity Museum anywhere

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## About The Speaker

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### Dr. Carol Tang

Executive Director Children's Creativity Museum San Francisco, CA

The 21st century STEM museum goes well beyond observation and awareness. Hear paleontologist Dr. Carol Tang, executive director of the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco, California, discuss how her team built a museum entirely centered on creative engagement and maker experiences.

There's not one way to do science. Each of us have our own strength, our own approaches. We could get to the same answer, or we could actually come up with different answers, and maybe that's what's exciting. ... Museums need to be that place where society can come together and create things together.

### — Dr. Carol Tang

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