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Designing Exhibits to Support Relational Learning in a Science Museum [PDF]
Science museums aim to provide educational experiences for both children and adults. To achieve this goal, museum displays must convey scientifically-relevant relationships, such as the similarities that unite members of a natural category, and the ...
Benjamin D. Jee, Florencia K. Anggoro
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The first interactive science museum in Peru: the origin and creation of TECNO-ITINTEC, 1975-1979 [PDF]
This paper examines the development of the TECNO-ITINTEC museum, the first interactive science museum in Peru, which opened in 1979. The museum functioned under the Institute of Industrial Technology Research and Technical Standards (ITINTEC), a public ...
Alejandra Ruiz-León
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Inquiry in a Science Museum: Science Museum Educators’ Views and Practices
Our study looks into science museum educators’ views and their practices about inquiry in non-formal venues, such as NOESIS, Greece. On this ground, we developed an interview protocol to use as a basis in the semi-structured interviews conducted with ...
Maria Karnezou, Petros Kariotoglou
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Here, we introduce the SMEP (Science Museum Exhibition Platform) system, which is aimed to construct a platform for sharing and exchanging the science museum exhibits and information for museum staff, focusing on natural history collections.
Da-Som Kim +5 more
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The BepiColombo ‘model’: looking beyond the ‘original’
This paper examines the role that models and replicas typically play in aerospace museums, which is to use them as references for the original or final product.
Abigail MacKinnon
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The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum
This article explores the role that science fiction (sf) texts might play in the museum, offering a perspective on acts of collection, curation, exhibition, and museum architecture, to ask what the museums of science fiction futures can offer those of us
Amy Butt
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Non-formal learning environments, such as science museums, have a fundamental role in science education and high potentialities as ideal contexts for science teachers’ training. These aspects have been analyzed and reported in several recent works mainly
Valentina Domenici
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The project of the Digital Science & Technology Museum of China is constructed by the China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Chinese Academy of Sciences, of which the objective is to integrate the high quality digital ...
Xiaolin Zhang, Min Zeng
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Festschrift: how do we value artefacts in museum research?
Museums of science and technology are well known for their efforts in collecting, preserving and exhibiting material expressions of techno-scientific cultures.
Helmuth Trischler
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Supporting young children’s learning from science objects: the importance of play on gallery
Experiences during the early years shape our lives as adults, including our appreciation and understanding of science. Even though early years audiences make up a significant number of visitors in many museums, they are an under-researched age group ...
Naomi Haywood +2 more
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