展出科學中的驚奇：從博物館的歷史中學習

Displaying the Wonder of Science: Lessons from the History of Museums

10.6686/MuseQ.200304_17(2).0003

Ken Arnold；劉家蓁(Kay J. J. Liu)

博物館學季刊

17卷2期（2003 / 04 / 01）

25 - 35

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How should museums present science? Over the last two decades much thought and even more money has been devoted to this question. Along with many other organisations, the Wellcome Trust in London has focused considerable effort on reinvigorating the ways in which science are presented and discussed. Following in the footsteps of San Francisco's pioneering 'Exploratorium', the Trust amongst many others has encouraged the development of Science Centres, seen as an approach to the subject that can plug a perceived gap in the provision of non-school-based science education Interactive displays have been identified as the saviour for audiences no longer prepared simply to look at old scientific equipment, specimens and illustrations that libraries and museum preserve. Particularly for the young, these developments have proved extremely valuable, adding a whole new layer of potential engagement with science. But I need to be clear from the start, they are not the subject of this paper. Instead of the didactic and de-mystifying goals behind this work, I am instead rather more interested in what might be called the 'wonder of science'. What follows is an attempt to explain the relevance of this somewhat obscure term to the contemporary practice of exhibiting science. To come clean, my contention is that alongside the much acclaimed role of hands-on exhibits, another seemingly more old fashioned type of presentation still has a vital role to play in helping the public discover the curiosity of science. In this alternative approach, science is treated as something to find out about rather than simply to explain or experience, and crucially as an element of culture that needs to be contemplated within a material as well as social and cultural context. A key to this latter approach to science lies very much in the nature and history of museums themselves, which have for more than five hundred years both created new scientific knowledge and provided storehouses in which to keep established ideas Today's best exhibitions and museums precisely combine these two roles-cupboards storing information and engines facilitating the testing of new ideas.

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