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The Vision

The Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL) will be a spectacular, interactive world-class museum that explores the past, present, and future of learning throughout the world. It provides a common core of understandings about people, procedures, and events, highlighting details of public education in our democracy. Lively and memorable exhibits, touchable artifacts, and engaging activities educate and delight participants of all ages and capabilities.

MOTAL will be a unique, world-class museum in a nation devoted to education. Our museum will serve as a dynamic catalyst for students, parents, teachers, citizens and policymakers to see the roles that they play in making learning more effective for themselves and others.

Mission

The mission of The Museum of Teaching and Learning is to promote understandings about how people learn by providing informative, engaging, and interactive exhibits and activities that explore achievements and methods of education from the past, present, and future. The Museum facilitates communication between and among students, families, educators, employers, and legislators and inspires its community to pursue further growth and development of education as a cornerstone of civil society.

Goals

• To bring people together, face-to-face and online to communicate with one another as they explore topics in education.
  
  
• To emphasize the unique and diverse attributes of schooling in our democracy while seeking perspectives from other global contexts
  
  
• To collect and preserve educational artifacts for research and as a continuous record of the changing world for future generations
  
  
• To provide insight and assistance for individuals to learn and remember more effectively through experiences that help assess personal learning strengths and provide clear, updated information about cognition and intelligence.
  
  
• To serve as a conference center for dialogue about the study of practices, theories, and philosophies that impact learning.
  
  
• To provide dynamic leadership for understanding the problems and solutions to educating all members of a diverse society through exhibits, publications, and educational programs. 
  
  
• To foster cooperative efforts among the varied institutions that study and promote learning and instruction.
  
  
• Focus:
  Establish and maintain a world-class museum devoted to sharing the tools, techniques, and stories of teaching and learning in the past, present and future
  
  
• Audience served:
  the general public, including families, educators, students, legislators, business people, and philanthropists of all ages, all races, all social and socioeconomic groups.
  
  
• Geographic reach:
  Impact will be tremendous within our founding state and have widespread influence upon people from across the United States and throughout the world through tourism and traveling exhibits.
  
  
• Provide entertaining insights about learning