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The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it--an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public--was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum's walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.

Science museums --- Science --- Science centers --- Museums --- History. --- History

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Ontario Science Centre --- Ontario Science Centre. --- Science museums --- --Ontario --- --Annual reports --- Science and technology --- --Museums

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A gripping tale of 150 years of scientific adventure, research, and discovery at the Yale Peabody Museum This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the world. Delving into the museum’s storied and colorful past, award-winning author Richard Conniff introduces a cast of bold explorers, roughneck bone hunters, and visionary scientists. Some became famous for wresting Brontosaurus, Triceratops, and other dinosaurs from the earth, others pioneered the introduction of science education in North America, and still others rediscovered the long-buried glory of Machu Picchu. In this lively tale of events, achievements, and scandals from throughout the museum’s history. Readers will encounter renowned paleontologist O. C. Marsh who engaged in ferocious combat with his “Bone Wars” rival Edward Drinker Cope, as well as dozens of other intriguing characters. Nearly 100 color images portray important figures in the Peabody’s history and special objects from the museum’s 13-million-item collections. For anyone with an interest in exploring, understanding, and protecting the natural world, this book will deliver abundant delights.

Natural history museums --- Natural history --- Science museums --- History. --- Museums --- Peabody Museum of Natural History --- Peabody Museum (Yale University) --- Yale Peabody Museum --- Yale University. --- Yale University --- Connecticut

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There is an increasing interest in understanding learning and knowledge development when visitors attend informal institutions, such as museums, science centers, aquariums and botanical gardens. But in what ways do visitors develop new knowledge, skills and awareness about displayed issues in these kinds of settings and how does the exhibition environment affect and scaffold learning processes? In this book, the authors turn their attention to visitors’ and staff members’ actions and dialogues during the visits in order to identify and study learning situations. A common approach is the use and development of socio-cultural and cultural-historical frameworks and theories as means for coming closer to the significance of interactions at different levels and in different contexts. The individual chapters cover learning interactions in relation to staff members’ roles and identities, family visits, exhibitions as resources for professional development and school visits.

Didactics --- didactiek --- Museum exhibits. --- Museum visitors. --- Museums --- Visitors to museums --- Persons --- Museum attendance --- Display techniques --- Displays, Museum --- Museum displays --- Exhibitions --- Museum techniques --- Visitors --- Science museums --- Educational aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Science --- Science centers --- Education --- History

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In zijn soort was Museum Vrolikianum de laatste grote privé-verzameling die in Nederland werd opgebouwd. De Vrolik-collectie, sinds begin jaren tachtig ondergebracht bij het AMC, vormt daarmee een ware tijdcapsule van vlak vóór de grote medische en wetenschappelijke veranderingen die de nieuwe tijd zou brengen - niet in de laatste plaats met de lancering van Darwins evolutietheorie. Dit schitterende en rijk geïllustreerde boek geeft een indrukwekkend beeld van de Amsterdamse anatomische verzameltraditie.

Medical museums --- Medicine --- Science museums --- Museums --- Museum Vrolik. --- Universiteit van Amsterdam. --- AMC --- A.M.C. --- Vrolik Museum --- Museum Vrolikianum --- Musée Vrolik --- Amsterdam UMC (Hospital consortium). --- Amsterdam UMC (Hospital consortium)