May 2025

#44

Ecsite Spokes News May 2025

Spokes is edited by Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums.

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Tinkering for learning, equity, and social inclusion

Lookout

School, museum or prison: the potential of Tinkering for creating more equitable STEM learning environments

Paul Hix

Irina Fritz

Vera Ludwig

Maria Karnezou

Harald Mattenberger

Marenka de Vries

Judith Bal

Inka de Pijper

Paul Boniface

Maria Xanthoudaki

Column

Re-inventing your magazine in line with the new Ecsite strategy

Catherine Franche

Maria Xanthoudaki

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Museums as community infrastructure

The 2022 edition of the excellent yearly Trendswatch by the American Alliance of Museums is out.

Moving European Researchers’ night online: did it change audience diversity?

The answer is found in this piece comparing inclusion indicators for 2019 and 2020.

Toward more accessible social media

Discover Accessible Social, a free online resource.

Cover of the accessible-social.com resource hub

Paving the way for ethical sponsorship

A Museum-iD piece on navigating the path towards ethically sound, financially viable, and fit for purpose partnerships.

Climate crisis: how museums could inspire radical action

Read this invitation to re-imagine museums by two UCL researchers on the MuseumNext website.

Exploring the spaces where the sciences and the arts meet

An issue of Consilience featuring poetry and art from across the world that explore the scientific topic of entropy.

Riding the Twitter wave

Enthusiasm for the social media platform changed science communication during the pandemic—but will it last, asks this piece in Science?

News from Blooloop

Our partner in the attractions sector has news on the growing number of visitors in museums in 2021 and on how to make museums more sustainable.

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