Chemistry displayed: the role of museums and science centres.

Chemistry and Industry | June 15, 1998| | Copyright

How are today's science museums, and the new generation of science discovery centres, meeting the challenge of putting the public in touch with chemistry?

Educational and entertaining, a day out to a museum is a popular pastime - indeed, a third of adults in the UK claim they do it (more than twice as many as go to football matches and the theatre combined).[1] But the Victorian set-up of rows and rows of glass cases is increasingly being replaced with a more stimulating and interactive way of displaying the exhibits. Nowhere more so than in science-related ...

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