Operations & finance
Emerging countries are now buying brands, expertise and activities from Western cultural institutions to enrich their urban development plans. For European museums, these international projects represent opportunities to build cultural diplomacy...
Outreach
We think science busking at its best is a non-judgmental and wholly open invitation to play and investigate the world around us. We also believe science busking can be a devastatingly effective and adaptable means of communicating with people....
Media
Networked media are bringing large-scale changes to the collecting, storing and delivering of information. The main trends do not so much reverse as complement and reposition the older ways and functions of the museum. The future of science...
Networking & Partnerships
Do you have a burning issue you want to discuss at the conference but you were not given the timeslot to do so? Do you feel there is an unanswered question in this programme for which you happen to have the answer? If so, this UnSession is for...
Collections
Natural history museums and science centres stress that biodiversity deserves protection. Many museums display old specimens, sometimes of extinct species. Can they take the risk of using those “unfortunate ambassadors of biodiversity” to engage...
Networking & Partnerships
Through presentation and analysis of many activities implemented for the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the session will deliver an overview of best practices in communicating biodiversity issues to the public and will provide a basis...
Technology
The “green wave” promoted by President Obama, and the increasing public attention to environmental problems, find in science museums and science centres the natural places for public debate and the development of informal educational projects...
Exhibit development
Participants will create an exhibition to display at the conference to demonstrate Fast Prototype learning. Participants will learn science and technology content and the process of Fast Prototyping. “Without a Parachute!” will show how museums...
This poster session will focus on the use of dialogue and of enquiry-based activities in science centres and museums. Several science centres and science museums will present posters with practical examples, thus providing an overview of such...
Outreach
Different audiences visit science centres and science festivals, but prisoners are a category of people who have difficulties to approach science, because of the impossibility to visit museums and exhibitions. A lot has been said about the...
Education
Teachers are some of the most important people in attracting young visitors in large quantities to a science centre. If teachers are convinced of the value of your science centre, they become ambassadors by booking your programmes and taking...
Finance
It is now 10 years since a number of science centres were set up in the UK and elsewhere in Europe to celebrate the new millennium. Their arrival was controversial and was not greeted with enthusiasm by many existing centres. The newcomers had...