Reviews
“This well-produced, well-illustrated volume is a very suitable contribution to the debate over exhibiting science, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.” Marc Rothenberg, Isis
Table of Contents
The Issues: How to Explain Modern Science
and How to Reach the Indifferent.
Museums in the New Millennium
Neil Cossons
Communication of Science in the Deutsches Museum:
In Search of the Right Formula”
Wolf Peter Fehlhammer
The Musée des Arts et Métiers: Renovation Issues (1988-1998)
Dominique Ferriot and Bruno Jacomy
Museums, Communities, and Contemporary Science
Alan J. Friedman
The Level of Complexity: The Middle Way Between the Superficial and the Repellent
Beyond Understanding: Curatorship and Access in Science Museums
Dr. James A. Bennett
Object Lessons
Simon Schaffer
Experimental History of Science
H. Otto Sibum
Fact and Fancy: Art in the Presentation of Science
Ken Arnold
Virtual Museums: The Challenges of New Technology.
New Technologies and the Objects of Science:
Reflections on the Use of Multimedia
Paolo Galluzzi
From Hands-On to Minds-On: Creativity in Science Museums
Saroj Ghose
In Favor of Scientific Knowledge
Jorge Wagensberg
Virtual Objects: Threat or Salvation?
Doron Swade
Controversial Science Issues: Neither Apologetic Glorification nor “the Science War.”
Context and Controversy
Bernard S. Finn
The Power of the Pencil: Renegotiating the Museum-Visitor Relationship Through Discussion Exhibits
Ben Gammon and Xerxes Mazda
“A-OK” to Y2K: Technological Confidence and History
at the End of the Twentieth Century
Robert Friedel
Communication and Communities: Changing Paradigms: Changing Paradigms in Museum Pedagogy
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Concluding Remarks
John L. Heilbron
Notes on Contributors and Index of Names
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