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Science Centres, Museums and the dialogue between
Science and Society Luigi
Amodio Director Fondazione IDIS-Città della
Scienza, Naples
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Main topics

• Science Centres and Museums generations,
  definitions, practices
• Science, Society and Museums theoretical
  considerations
• Examples, projects and best practices
• Conclusions

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1. Science centres and Museums
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Museum

• a place where art collections, documents,
  natural and/or technical history objects are
  collected - art - history, science / pezzo da
  -, (scherz.) of an old or unuseful thing or of a
  old-fashioned person too

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Art museums
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Archaeological museums
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Ethno-anthropological museums
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Before the Museum

• From ancient times to Middle Age precious
  objects, war robberies, liturgy objects, natural
  exothic curiosities
• Umanism to put order in the collections the
  studioli of Lionello dEste in Ferrara,
  Federico di Montefeltro in Urbino, Isabella
  dEste in Mantova, etc.
• Francesco I de Medici in Florence built with gli
  Uffizi, the first modern museum diffusion of
  culture for everyone
• Northern Europe Wunderkammern, Cabinet de
  Curiosité

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The first generation of science museums

• Look, dont touch!
• push the button
• le magnifiche sorti e progressive
• Natural History Museum London (1881), Deutsches
  Museum Munich (1906), Science Museum London
  (1928), Palais de la Découverte Paris (1937)

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First generation exhibits
A steam engine 1899 (Munich)
A butterflies collection (London)
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The second generation of science museums

• Its forbidden NOT to touch!
• exhibits hands on
• the name science centre starts to be used
• Introduction of PC and multimedia
• Exploratorium San Francisco (1969), Cité des
  Sciences et de lIndustrie Paris (1986)

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A second generation exhibit
SOUND DELAY Through simple tubes of different
lenghts, it is possible to hear very clearly
that the sound waves take a certain time to run a
certain distance
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A second generation exhibit
Interactive educational lab (Helsinki)
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The third generation of science museums

• ICT as the main tool of interaction
• information dimension prevailing on the
  educational and training one
• A multidimensional / multisensorial experience is
  provided

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A third generation exhibit
TELEZONE A robot through the Internet allows
distant users in telepresence to plan and
build architectures, sharing information http//ww
w.aec.at
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Examples of third generation

• Wellcome Wing of the Science Museum, London
• ICT as an extension of museum contents beyond its
  borders and dialoguing with the visitor
• The role of web site

• Ars Electronica Center, Linz (www.aec.at)
• ICT as an intelligent interface between museum
  and visitor
• Internal net and infrastructure, sensors and
  telepresence

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The fortune and diffusion of the
Science-Centre-like model

• New SC everywhere in the world
• Renewal of traditional museums with elements from
  the science centre model (Deutsches Museum,
  Science Museum, Palais de la Découverte, MNST
  Leonardo da Vinci)
• Network of museums ASTC, ECSITE, NCSM, ASPAC,
  NAMES
• Science Centres World Congresses the next, 2011,
  to be held in South Africa

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Science centres typologies and models

• Survey by Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli,
  Lesperienza internazionale degli Science Centre
  (1998)
• Analysis of 12 cases in Europe and the United
  States
• gestation, cultural hypotesis, logistic, offer,
  resources, development perspectives
• Elaboration of 6 typologies

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First

• Resource Centres for education teaching science
  and technology (Exploratorium, San Francisco)

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Second

• Science Lunapark to have fun with science and
  technology (Pacific Science Center, Seattle)

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Third

• Science Agorà discussing on science and
  technology (Nemo (former newMetropolis),
  Amsterdam Wellcome Wing, London)

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Fourth

• Monitoring innovation science and technology
  frontiers (Columbus Center, Baltimora Tech
  Museum of Innovation, S. Jose Inventure Place,
  Akron)

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Fifth

• Science Cities orienteering in a world full of
  science and technology (la Cité, Paris)

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Sixth

• Local development incubators science and
  technology as factors of growth (Città della
  Scienza, Naples)