Science Exhibitions
Communication and Evaluation
Edited by Anastasia Filippoupoliti
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part 1: engaging new audiences
22 gillia n thoma s Miami Science Museum, USA
dhiksha na tur a khia Science Museum, London UK
silvia casini
Observa - Science in Society, Vicenza, Italy
part 2: defining & creating the
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glyker ia a nyfa ndi Eugenides Foundation, Athens
va silis koula dis & kosta s dimopoulos University of Peloponnese
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ja n freedma n, cla r e buckla nd, helen fothergill, rob longworth, peter smithers, ela ine filema n & jodie fisher
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science & University of Plymouth, UK
sue dale tunnicliffe
Institute of Education, University of London, UK a nnette scheersoi
Frankfurt University, Germany
warwick frost
La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
244 eric siegel & stephen miles uzzo New York Hall of Science, USA
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fr anz klingender
Canada Science & Technology Museum Corporation
part 3: activating evaluation
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The Huntingdon Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, USA
kitty connolly
The Huntingdon Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, USA
k athy fox & k ate phillips
Melbourne Museum, Museum Victoria, Australia
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henry mcghie, pete brown & jeff horsley
The Manchester Museum, UK
jenny cousins English Heritage, London, UK
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University of Lisbon, Portugal
cary sneider
Portland State University, USA
george w ha rt, cindy lawrence, tim nissen & glen whitney Museum of Mathematics, New York, USA
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silvia singer & carmen villasenor MIDE (Museo Interactivo de Economía), Mexico City
part 4: an episode from the past
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Between Environment and Science
An Exhibition about Butterflies
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Butterf lies throughout Time
between environment and science The exhibition
Butterf lies throughout Time
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Butterflies throughout Time
Butterflies throughout Time
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Butterflies throughout Time
Earth Adventure Earth Adventure
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Butterflies throughout Time
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In the light of Einstein The evolution of Darwin
Butterflies throughout Time
between environment and science Is this an exhibition or what?
Why do you have it in this hole, why didn’t you chose another place?
So, where is the exhibition? My God, come with me Look at
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Where’s the exhibition?
The aftermath of the exhibition
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Notes
1. To whom I am indebted for a long and very informative interview. All the quotations in this chapter are derived from that interview.
2. The Science Alive Agency, created in 1996, though formally an association, is fully funded by the Ministry of Science (Delicado 2009b, Miller et al 2002). It runs a network of sixteen science centres scattered throughout the country and promotes a wide array of activities: science competitions for schools, summer activities in astronomy, biology, geology and engineering, S&T week, summer internships for high school students in research centres, international projects.
3. It must be said that the majority of visitors to science centres and museums in Portugal are school children, which are left out of Eurobarometer surveys. Furthermore, most of the exhibitions in these institutions are mainly aimed at children, which in turn helps to explain their lack of popularity among adults. Nevertheless, Portugal has low rates of public participation in all kinds of cultural activities (see, for instance, EC 2007), which is chief ly due to the relatively low average education level of the population.
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