Book review: Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm by Robert Bud - Science Museum Group Journal
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The Science Museum Group Journal presents the global research community with peer-reviewed papers relevant to the work of science museums everywhere. It is completely Open Access and freely shares the research of our five national UK museums while warmly inviting contributions from international museum professionals, academics and researchers to form creative conversations.| Science Museum Group Journal
Julia Knights reflects on Issue 23 of the Science Museum Group Journal. The post Issue 23 Editorial appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
Dr Kierri Price reviews Medieval Women at the British Library, with interjections from four fellow medievalists to reflect the excitement of the exhibition. The post <i>Medieval Women: Voices and Visions</i>, British Library exhibition review appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
Colin Jones discusses the interplay between scientific research and the aristocratic establishment at Versailles before the French Revolution. The post Keynote: The science that Versailles forgot appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
Neil Brown remembers the life and work of Science Museum Curator and Senior Research Fellow Brian Bowers. The post Obituary: Brian Peter Bowers (1938–2024) appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
This paper considers how a simple resource can support object learning for young children with low science capital in school groups. The resource was successful by encouraging children’s movement and gestures in relation to objects. It is argued that a focus on movement and gesturing is of particular importance for low science capital young children as such embodied cognition does not require specific understanding or vocabulary. The post See, move, wonder: supporting young children with lo...| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
Investigating an audience-driven strategy for interactive interpretation prototyping in a science museum setting at the discovery phase of exhibition development. The post Prototyping the Power Hall: a decision-making process appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
This article examines how Open Access (OA) principles can be applied to research in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs), namely museums, focusing on how the Science Museum Group has used the British Library shared repository scheme to broaden definitions of museum research and make it more accessible. The post Making museum research more visible: Open Access in the GLAM sector appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
Scott Anthony, Deputy Head of the Research & Public History Department at the Science Museum in London, reviews Harriet Atkinson’s book Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist exhibitions in Britain, 1933–53. The post Book review: <i>Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist exhibitions in Britain, 1933–53</i>, by Dr Harriet Atkinson appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
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This article presents a collective object biography and discussion of the Cottingley Fairy artefacts – cameras, photographs, watercolour sketches and print materials – held at the National Science and Media Museum. The post Power at play in paranormal history appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
In honour of the Journal’s tenth birthday, we asked a collection of authors with huge and varied experience of the cultural sector to think about the last decade and pick one thing that stands out for them. The brief was open and included books, exhibitions, digital innovation and general trends. The only restriction was that the contributions were short and were accompanied by a single image.| Science Museum Group Journal
Paul Craddock and Anna Harris trace embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine, arguing that historians might develop filmmaking methods to engage with historical or re-enacted practices of making and performance.| Science Museum Group Journal
Helmuth Trischler discusses the add-on value of integrating research into museums at various levels. He has continuously sought to explore new avenues for realising the vision of the ‘integrated research museum’ that connects these three fields as closely as possible.| Science Museum Group Journal
This provocation examines the history of the digital journal and looks to the next ten years of ejournal possibilities, including new journal methods like the overlay journal.| Science Museum Group Journal
Director of the Science Museum Group Sir Ian Blatchford reflects in this editorial on the first ten years of the Science Museum Group Journal| Science Museum Group Journal
This article examines the history of a former Rhodesia Railways carriage in the Science Museum Group’s collection to ask what stories it can tell beyond the narrative of its return. The article argues that interpretation of the carriage since its repatriation has focused on the story of its return, while gaps in the knowledge of its operational life – including the experiences of passengers and the impacts of the railway’s labour hierarchy – have been overlooked.| Science Museum Group Journal
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Costanza Caraffa, and Dr Ruth Quinn speak about photographic archival practice and the archive as a generative place.| Science Museum Group Journal
To the Edge of Time, co-curated by Hannah Redler-Hawes and Thomas Hertog, explored the Big Bang discovery story and the future of time through the science of Georges Lemaître, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking and modern and contemporary artworks. This paper describes the thinking and development process behind the exhibition.| Science Museum Group Journal
