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Title Science museums in transition : unheard voices / edited by Hooley McLaughlin and Judy Diamond
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 93 pages)
Series Museums in focus
Routledge museums in focus.
Summary Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices considers how museums can adapt their exhibits, programs, and organizational structures to the diversity of ideas, people, and cultures that speak to modern science. This collection contains individual expressions by museum insiders addressing a range of particular perspectives - Native American, African American, Latinx, Islamic, Israeli, Danish, white North American. These reflections provide guidance to the museum community as to how their institutions can become more thoughtful, more welcoming to diverse audiences, and more cognizant of the ways that different people incorporate science into their daily lives. As a whole, the book emphasizes the need for museums to engage in dialogue with their visitors - not merely to present them with information - and to offer the opportunities to share experiences, exchange perspectives, and thereby advance science learning through a dynamic and collective process. Science Museums in Transition is intended to further discussion on how museums address the political and social ramifications of science and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum studies, science, anthropology, education and history. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals around the globe
Notes Hooley McLaughlin is an Adjunct Professorin the Faculty of Information Studiesat the University of Toronto in Canada. Judy Diamond is a Professorand Curator at theUniversity of Nebraska State Museum in the USA
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 14, 2019)
Subject Science museums.
SCIENCE -- General.
Science museums
Form Electronic book
Author McLaughlin, Hooley Michael Graham, 1949- editor.
Diamond, Judy, editor.
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