16.06.2023 | 09:00 - 10:15
09:00 - 10:15
Exhibit development
Temporary exhibitions give Museums the opportunity to boost their programmes and engage their visitors. It is not always easy to find places or exhibitions spaces for this purpose and sometimes is necessary to imagine new emplacements. In this panel we will learn from the experience of projects where the exhibitions have been located in imaginative places such as boats, trucks, buses, tents…
Outcomes: what will participants get from this session? Skills, knowledge, experience etc.
Participants will gain skills in developing new projects for our museums or science centres. During the session we'll generate a critical discussion with the audiences about issues, strugles and oportunities within this kind of project where the experience of colleagues from different European museums who have managed to bring science closer to society in a new format will give the participants ideas to expand the walls of their museum.
Facilitator
Head of Scientific Area
Barcelona
Spain
Session speakers
Head of science exhibition and programmes
CosmoCaixa. "la Caixa" Foundation
BARCELONA
Spain
CosmoCaixa
Since 1979 “la Caixa” foundation has moved touring exhibition throughout Spain and Portugal. We began our journey with big tents that hold 500 sq meters exhibitions. The difficulty of finding large enough spaces, the duration of installation and the cost of setting up the exhibition made us investigate and try other formats, such us buses and trucks.
We are currently moving exhibitions in buses and trucks able to transform to 200 sq metres exhibitions in hours which give us the opportunity to travel to more towns and have the largest number of visitors enjoy our contents.
Head of Exhibitions
Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH
Berlin
Germany
Wissenschaft
Since 2002, the inland cargo ship "MS Jenny" has accompanied the Science Years under the name "MS WISSENSCHAFT" (= Motorship Science). The exhibitions, which change annually and are aligned with the themes of the Science Years proclaimed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, have attracted an average of 80,000 visitors in recent years (at non-Covid-19 times). Media response is in the range of 1,500 to 1,800 recorded media reports (press, radio, television) per year.
MS SCIENCE's exhibition partners are the major research and research funding organizations and universities in Germany, as well as other thematically appropriate partners. They contribute activities, expertise and exhibits. Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD = Science in dialogue) has implemented the ship's projects over the past 20 years. WiD is the organization for science communication in Germany.
Content manager
Valencia
Spain
Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
With the intention of bringing citizens closer to the latest artistic trends of contemporary creators, both national and international, and due to the firm intention of disseminating culture, the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències de Valencia takes art out of the exhibition halls, and puts it on itinerancy throughout the Spanish territory, claiming the concept of an open-air museum. There are several exhibitions that, after being exhibited outside this complex, are being placed in emblematic places and cities with messages of conservation, awareness and therefore of transformation of our society through culture.
After more than 12 years of this initiative, there are many artists who have passed through its facilities, including names such as Heinz Mack, Jaume Plensa, Arne Quinze or Leiko Ikemura.
Exhibit development
Heilbronn
Germany
MS experimenta
"You are science. You create knowledge" - this is the motto by which the MS experimenta has been touring Germany since 2020. Previously, the ship was already an additional location for offerings during construction work on the new experimenta building and then during the Bundesgartenschau in Heilbronn.
The current concept focuses on the visitors themselves and invites them to explore, understand and shape the world on their own. This is possible in two exhibition areas with 21 hands-on stations, various experiment activities and a Mini Dome with 360-degree dome, representing our exhibitions, laboratories and the Science Dome at experimenta. The MS experimenta was rebuilt for this purpose in 2020 and rearranged and revised exhibits from previous exhibitions.