Almost all of the discussions surrounding educational policy focus their attention on particular places, especially various kinds of formal schooling. While this focus is of course crucial, it tends to ignore other educational sites where acts of teaching go on and where challenges to accepted understandings are waged. These include libraries and the topic of this essay, museums. Creating the Creation Museum clearly documents why such sites are worthy of our most serious attention. The book is a substantive contribution in a number of ways. It offers important critical insights about the Museum and its overt role in “advancing a long standing movement goal: advancing the cultural authority of creation science.” It also provides us with an expanded set of methodological tools for engaging in such work.

围绕教育政策的几乎所有讨论都将注意力集中在特定的地方，尤其是各种形式的正规学校。尽管这一重点当然很关键，但它往往会忽略其他继续进行教学活动并向公认的理解提出挑战的教育场所。其中包括图书馆和本文的主题博物馆。创建创作博物馆清楚地说明了为什么这些遗址值得我们最认真的关注。这本书在许多方面都做出了实质性贡献。它提供了有关博物馆及其在“推进长期运动目标：推进创造科学的文化权威”中的显性作用的重要批判性见解。它还为我们提供了扩展的方法工具集，以从事此类工作。