Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Article
How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Photo story
Trans masculinity on the record
Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.
Catalogue
- Books
Using museums to popularise science and technology / edited by Sharyn Errington (editor), Susan M. Stocklmayer (assoc. editor), Brenton Honeyman (assoc. editor).
Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Let's try it ... and see what happens! : Science experiments for public settings / by Jane Snell Copes.
Copes, Jane Snell.Date: 1997- Books
What research says about learning in science museums / [Beverly Serrell, coordinating editor].
Date: [1990-1993], ©1990-1993- Books
Roles of affect in the museum visit and ways of assessing them / MIES, the Museum Impact and Evaluation Study.
Museum Impact and Evaluation Study (Firm)Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
Learning about science and technology in museums / [edited by John Yorath].
Date: 1995