Science Museums in Transition

<p><em>Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices</em> considers how museums can adapt their exhibits programs and organizational structures to the diversity of ideas people and cultures that speak to modern science.</p><p>This collection contains individual expressions by museum insiders addressing a range of particular perspectives – Native American African American Latinx Islamic Israeli Danish white North American. These reflections provide guidance to the museum community as to how their institutions can become more thoughtful more welcoming to diverse audiences and more cognizant of the ways that different people incorporate science into their daily lives. As a whole the book emphasizes the need for museums to engage in dialogue with their visitors – not merely to present them with information – and to offer the opportunities to share experiences exchange perspectives and thereby advance science learning through a dynamic and collective process.</p><p>Science Museums in Transition is intended to further discussion on how museums address the political and social ramifications of science and as such should be of great interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum studies science anthropology education and history. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals around the globe.</p>