Researchers on display: moving the laboratory into the museum
Résumé
An intriguing development is taking place in several European science museums: the move of university research laboratories into the space accessible to visitors. Seen as a means to encourage the public understanding of research and to render research practice more accessible to visitors, such laboratories-in-the-museum have been set up in museums in Munich, Berlin, Milan and Gothenburg. This paper is concerned with the changes that the laboratory undergoes through this relocation - namely a transformation of its social and material architecture; an extension of its object-world; and a change in, and multiplication of, the roles of researchers. The laboratory-in-the-museum not only represents, displays and explains a particular kind of space - the laboratory - but it is also designed to create space for dialogue and discussion between researchers and visitors.
Domaines
Sciences de l'Homme et Société Sciences de l'information et de la communication Sciences de l'Homme et Société Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences Sciences de l'Homme et Société Héritage culturel et muséologie Sciences de l'Homme et Société Sociologie Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics] Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique Sciences de l'Homme et Société Education
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