Parallax Error? A Participant’s Account of the Science Museum, c.1980–c.2000
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Boon, Timothy
Date published
2010
Abstract
It is generally a mistake, especially for a historian, to assume that the change personally lived through is somehow more dramatic than that of any other era. All the same, the last thirty years have been marked by significant transformations in the Science Museum’s governance, its public face, its staff structure, and in fact all the different components that the other contributions to this volume have discussed. A single chapter cannot cover the whole range of this era of the Museum’s history, and, whilst acknowledging the wider scene, do more than note that these changes occurred in a period of significant change for all national museums. Instead, this chapter will consider developments in the Science Museum’s continuing dialectic between history and science communication — or, to put it differently, collections and interactivity — which was particularly antithetical in this period.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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