Explainers & visitor services
Catherine MurphyInga SpechtMark SchepTania JohnstonOllie Burton
Guided tours provide a special synergy between our visitors, our exhibits, and our staff. They play an important role in the engagement that occurs in science centres and can provide a personal connection between the visitors and our exhibits. In...
Exhibit development
Michèle ANTOINEJohn KannenbergMark ReadChristian Rohner
Giving a prominent role to sound is currently a trend amongst museum practitioners. This is unsurprising as our relationship with sound, noise and even silence is fascinating and complex. However, not only is communicating exclusively via sound...
Science ♥ society
Amanda MathiesonAmanda MathiesonCarl FreeYlenia CallusEdward Duca
Come and play our sustainability-themed virtual escape room run over Zoom! Up to 6 players will control a live actor and solve the puzzles within the time limit. Audience members can join in via the chat.
The year is 2050 and Earth has...
Exhibit development
Harry WhiteSarah AlexanderLisa FinchRyan JenkinsAndreas MattEric Londaits
In this hands-on workshop, developers, educators and artists will share ways that they have remixed and adapted art/science-themed experiences and interactive temporal exhibitions and galleries during the pandemic period. We’ll focus on the...
Learning
Amanda MathiesonAmanda MathiesonCarl FreeYlenia CallusEdward Duca
Commitment: Climate & biodiversity crisis / 21st century skills
We invite you to a demonstration of our international, online escape room, ‘Back for the Future,’ where we solve sustainability challenges in order to...
Learning
Carmen FenollosaMaria ZоlоtоnоsаDee HalliganClaudia AguirreSimona CerratoChagit Tishler
Science engagement institutions can play a major role in transforming the way schools look today. These organisations are generally curious by nature, offer physical interactions with science and technology, in new learning dimensions and always...
Learning
Sebastian MartinJutta SchlöglCeleste MorenoDavid NefRyoko Matsumoto
Commitment: 21st century skills
Join us for live performances of playful computational activities that are accessible to all learners - a sensor driven chain reaction, a robotic carnival, and more!
It is crucial...
Equity & Inclusion
Abi AshtonSanne den AdelVanessa MignanAlexia SonnoisMeie van LaarKathrin KöstersAna Ramos
Commitment: Equity & inclusion
The Equity@Ecsite workgroup created a Framework for diversity, equity, access and inclusion (DEAI), which was test-piloted with 17 pioneer...
Strategy & vision
Amito HaarhuisLewis HouColin JohnsonCamille Pisani
Amito Haarhuis convenes this check-in session, where our invited guests Lewis Hou, Colin Johnson and Camille Pisani will each discuss one of three commitments they have been following throughout the final day of the Conference. Lewis Hou will be...
Science ♥ society
Joseph RocheLaura BellFabiana Zollo
Commitment: 21st century skills
How can we make social media more credible and reliable?...
Strategy & vision
Vanessa MignanCristina Veiga-PiresSimona CerratoLuis Alberto de Sousa GonçalvesEva Durall
What a year! We all remember how it started; we closed our doors, we had to protect collections and jobs, and tried reaching out to our audiences. We went in all directions; adapting programmes, creating new online content, trying different...
Exhibit development
Christian SichauChristian SichauMaarten TaborskyMette Stentoft Therkildsen
Commitment: Climate & biodiversity crisis
Sustainability is a pressing issue today – not only as a topic for the exhibitions we are showing, but increasingly also with the regard to the production of the exhibitions...