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PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS

CIMUSET 2012

CIMUSET Conference in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland 28th–31st of August 2012

1. Väinö Linnan aukio2. Rupriikki Media Museum / TR1 Kunsthalle3. Finlayson church, Puuvillatehtaankatu 2 (Departure of the bus

for Mustalahti Harbour on Thursday 30 August)4. Mustalahti Harbour (Departure for the Lake Näsijärvi Cruise on

Thursday 30 August)5. Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing and

Restaurant Amurin Helmi, Satakunnankatu 496. Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley, Hämeenpuisto 207. Lenin Museum, Hämeenpuisto 288. Emil Aaltonen Museum, Mariankatu 40

Conference Hotels9. Cumulus Koskikatu

Koskikatu 510. Hotel Kauppi

Kalevan puistotie 211. Sokos Hotel Tammer

Satakunnankatu 1412. Dream Hostel

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CIMUSET2012 Brighter Perspectives for Science & Technology Museums

Tampere • Helsinki • Finland 28th–31st of August 2012

and ABSTRACTSPROGRAMME

Editors: Kimmo Antila, Maija Ekosaari, Marjo Meriluoto-Jaakkola

Layout and cover: Mediakettu Jari Peurajärvi

Maps: Museum Centre Vapriikki, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas,

Mediakettu Jari Peurajärvi

ISBN: 978-951-609-555-7

Tampere museums publications 126

Juvenes Print, Tampere 2012

3Tampere • Helsinki • Finland • 28th–31st of August 2012 CIMUSET2012

CONTENTSWELCOME 4

ORGANISERS 5

CIMUSET 6

GENERAL INFORMATION 9

SOCIAL PROGRAMME 11

PROGRAMME 12Tuesday 28 12Wednesday 29 13Thursday 30 16Friday 31 18

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 20

ABSTRACTS 23Plenary 1. Keynote Speeches 24Session 1. Role Of The Museum 26Session 2. Museum Renovations 31Session 3. History of Technology and Science Represented on the Sites and Museums 36Session 4. Games And Interactive Experiences at the Museums 40Plenary 2. Networking in Innovative Projects. Innovative Exhibition Technologies and Concepts 42Session 5. Engaging Audiences with New Technologies 49Session 6. Co-Operation with Different Actors 54Plenary 3. Experimenting and Learning in Science Centers 61

INDEX 63

MAPS 65

CONTACTS DURING THE CONFERENCE 68

4 CIMUSET2012 Tampere • Helsinki • Finland • 28th–31st of August 2012

WELCOMEDear CIMUSET 2012 ParticipantWe are delighted to welcome you to this year’s CIMUSET conference in Finland. The conference theme “Brighter Perspectives for Science and Technology Muse-ums” will set goals for all of us in our respective museums to network, educate and communicate with our audiences. The programme of the conference extensively covers the various aspects of the work done in science and technology museums.

We shall start our conference in Tampere which is the cradle of Finnish industry. The old red brick district around the Tammerkoski rapids is a prime example of how the 19th century industrial milieu can be taken into contemporary cultural and business use while retaining its character as an important part of the national landscape. The main conference venues are Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampella area and Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Finlayson area, both located in the conserved industrial heart of the city. A day in Finnish Science Center Heureka in Vantaa and Museum of Technology in Helsinki will conclude our exploration of the major science and technology museums in Finland.

We would like to thank CIMUSET board and its president Jytte Thorndahl for the fruitful co-operation as well as all the members of the local organizing commit-tee and scientific advisory board for their help and committed work for the con-ference. The conference would not have been possible without financial support from the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the City of Tampere.

We wish all of you, coming from twenty different countries, a pleasant and benefi-cial conference and an enjoyable stay in Finland!

Kimmo Antila, Museum Centre VapriikkiChair of the local organizing committee, CIMUSET 2012Member of the board, CIMUSET

Teemu Ahola, Finnish Labour Museum WerstasVice chair of the local organizing committee, CIMUSET 2012


ORGANISERSLocal Organising Committee• Chair: Project Manager Kimmo Antila,

Tampere Museums / Museum Centre Vapriikki

• Vice Chair: Deputy Manager, Collection Manager Teemu Ahola, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas

Members:• Project Manager Maija Ekosaari, Tampere Museums /


• CEO Anja Hakkarainen, TAVI Congress Bureau

• Project Manager Leenu Juurola, Museum of Technology

• Researcher Marjo Meriluoto-Jaakkola, Tampere Museums / Museum Centre Vapriikki

• Researcher Outi Penninkangas, Tampere Museums / Media Museum Rupriikki

• Project Coordinator Mirja Takatalo, TAVI Congress Bureau

• Project Manager Kati Tyystjärvi, Heureka

Scientific advisory committee:• Vice President of CIMUSET David Demant

• Dr. Mikhail Gnedovsky, Trustee, EMF, Director, Cultural Policy Institute, Moscow.

• Professor Pertti Haapala, University of Tampere

• Director Marjo Mikkola, Museum of Technology

• Professor Panu Nykänen, The Finnish Society for the History of Technology / Aalto University

• Director Per-Edvin Persson, Heureka

• President of CIMUSET Jytte Thorndahl

Conference Assistants • Susanna Haavisto, University of Jyväskylä

• Salla Harjula, University of Tampere

• Jenni Karttunen, University of Jyväskylä

• Jussi Lahtinen, University of Tampere

• Maiju Nurminen, University of Jyväskylä


CIMUSETThe International Committee for Museums (ICOM) and its committee for the Mu-seums of Science and Technology (CIMUSET) is composed of museum profes-sionals from the fields of science and technology.

The name of the committee is an acronym (in French) : C(omité) I(nternational) (des) MU(sées) (de) S(ciences) E(t) (des) T(echniques).

The committee is not only dedicated to traditional museums of science and technology, largely historical and collection based, but also to contemporary sci-ence centres, working primarily to popularize and promote science and technol-ogy among children and young people all over the world.

The Objectives of CIMUSET• support the aims and objectives of ICOM, in particular

• with reference to thepreservation of the cultural heritage

• of science and technology, and the dissemination of

• knowledge of its development and importance to society;

• contribute to the development and implementation of ICOM’s program;

• formulate and carry out a program of activities related to the preservation of the cultural heritage within science and technology and dissemination of knowledge within this field;

• provide a forum for communication, co-operation and information exchange between museums, professional workers and others concerned with preserva-tion of the cultural heritage within science and technology and dissemination ofknowledge of this field;

• provide advice to ICOM on preservation of the cultural heritage within science and technology and dissemination of knowledge in this field;

• represent the interest of the museums of science and technology within ICOM; and,

• co-operate with National Committees and Regional Organizations of ICOM and with other International Committees and Affiliated Organizations in mat-ters related to the Committee’s specific mandate and to the broader interests of ICOM.

If you wish to join CIMUSET, it is necessary join ICOM and inform that you would also like to be a member of CIMUSET. ICOM membership offers the opportunity of joining a network of more than 21,000 museum professionals from all disci-plines and all countries, and participating in the international work of museums.

More information about the membership of ICOM/CIMUSET from the websites: http://icom.museum/, http://www.cimuset.net/


CIMUSET Board and RepresentativesPresident • Jytte Thorndahl, Danish Museum of Energy, Bjerringbro, Denmark

([email protected])

Vice-presidents • David Demant, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

([email protected])

• Xu Yanhao, China Science and Technology Museum, Beijing, China ([email protected])

Treasurer • Peter Donhauser, Technical Museum of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Secretary • Éva Vámos, Hungarian Museum for Science, Technology and Transport, Buda-

pest, Hungary ([email protected])

Second Secretary • Davor Fulanovic, Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

([email protected])

Members • Kimmo Antila, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland

([email protected])

• Lyudmila Bakayutova, The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia ([email protected])

• Amparo Sebastian Caudet, Fundacion de Apoyo al Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Madrid, Spain ([email protected])

• Irena Marušič, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia ([email protected])

The CIMUSET Board has elected representatives for South America, North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Europe President of CIMUSET Jytte Thorndahl Danish Museum of Energy Bjerringbrovej 44 DK 8850 Bjerringbro, Denmark Phone: + 45 8725 9744/ +45 8668 4211 Fax: + 45 8668 0470 E-Mail: [email protected]


North America Claude Faubert Canada Science and Technology Museum C.P. 9724, succursale T / P.O. Box 9724, Station T Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1G 5A3 Canada Phone.: (613) 991-0372 Fax.: (613) 990-3654 E-mail: [email protected]

South America Maria Esther Valente Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins Rua General Bruce, 586, São Cristovão 20.921-030 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Phone: +21 2580-7010 Fax: +21 2580-4531 E-mail: [email protected]

Australia Vice President of CIMUSET David Demant Museum Victoria GPO Box 666E Melbourne 3001 Victoria Australia Phone: + 61 3 8341 7252 Fax: + 61 3 9291 2139 E-mail: [email protected]

Asia Vice President of CIMUSET Xu Yanhao China Science & Technology Museum No. 5, Beichen East Road, Chaoyong District 1000020 Beijing, China Phone: +86 10 59041001 Fax: +86 10 59041022 E-mail: [email protected]


GENERAL INFORMATIONRegistration and information deskRegistration and information desk will be open as follows:

Tuesday 28 August, 2012 The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Finlayson Area,address: Väinö Linnan aukio 8

12.00-19:00

Wednesday and Thursday, 29–30 August,2012 Museum Centre Vapriikki, Entrance lobby, Tampella Area,address: Alaverstaanraitti 58.15–12:45

N.B. The conference registration will close on Thursday, August 30 after lunch, and will not be open on Friday. Please make sure you settle all open matters (Participation certificates, travel bills etc.) by Thursday morning.

Speakers’ ready corner The Speakers’ ready corner will follow the location of the registration desk (Wers-tas, Vapriikki) and the assistance for the speakers will be available during the reg-istration desk hours. Inquire the exact place from the registration desk or look for the signs to Speakers’ ready corner.

Conference Participation CertificatesStandard certificates of participation are issued on request only during the con-ference. If you need one, please inquire in the information desk and be prepared to show a valid identification document when picking it up.

Conference language The official language of the conference is English.

Instructions for presenters Presentations are to be delivered for uploading to the Speakers’ ready corner on a USB key preferably one day prior or at least two hours prior to your session. The accepted formats are PDF or PowerPoint and the file must be named with your last name, first name and the code of your session (please, check the code from the programme), e.g. Smith_John_S1.ppt. A conference assistant will be avail-able to assist you in uploading your presentation.

Personal laptops are not permitted for presentations.

We encourage you to share your presentation material with other conference participants. Please, inform the conference assistant which part of your presenta-tion can be uploaded on the conference website. The conference organisers do not provide services for making (paper) copies of the presentations.


The time allocated for each presentation is 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion).

Session ChairsFor all sessions in Tampere: A conference assistant will be available to assist the Chairs at the venue of the session/meeting 20 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time and throughout the sessions. They will inform the chairs of any known changes to the program, upload the presentations ti the computer used on the meeting room and help in tracking the time.

Internet Museum Centre Vapriikki and Finlayson area have a wireless internet connection. User names and passwords for both are available at the Conference registration and information desk.

Lunch and coffee Lunch and coffee are included in your delegate fee, and are available during the scheduled breaks.

Please, make sure you wear you name badge clearly while serving yourself.

Vapriikki Café is open from 10 to 18 during the conference days, and Finlayson area has several cafes and restaurants where you can buy additional refreshments.

Name badges Upon registration you have received a name badge which should be worn at all meeting events, including the social functions. It is the only invitation and ticket you need to the events you have registered for. Entrance to the meeting rooms is with a proper delegate name badge only.

During the conference the badge allows you free entrance to most museums in Tampere.


SOCIAL PROGRAMMETuesday 28 August, 201219.00–21.00 Welcome reception The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson AreaDrinks and snack foodIncluded in the delegate and accompanying person fee.

Wednesday 29 August, 201219.30–21.30 Reception at Museum Centre Vapriikki hosted by the City of TampereSpecial music programme by Händel Choir.Included in the delegate and accompanying person fee.

Thursday 30 August, 201217.40 Bus transportation from Werstas to M/S Intti to Mustalahti Harbour

18.00–19.00 Cruise on Lake Näsijärvi(Pre-registration for the cruise required. Registration during the conference only)

Short walk from the Mustalahti Harbour to the restaurant Amurin Helmi in the Amuri Worker’s housing museum.

19.15 –22.30 Dinner at Amurin Helmi , Satakunnankatu 49, 33230 Tampere. (separate fee 40 € / person both for delegates and accompanying persons. Pre-registration required)

All those who have pre-registered to the events will have an invitation in their conference material, and/or coloured sticker behind their conference name badge .

There is limited availability of additional tickets, please inquire in the information desk.


PROGRAMMETuesday 28 August, 2012

12.00–19:00 Conference registration and information desk is open The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Finlayson Area www.werstas.fi

13.00–16.00 MUSEUM VISITS IN TAMPERE A chance to visit several local museums

Guided tours in English at 13.00 and 15.00. Please, remember to register for the tours!

• Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing http://www.tampere.fi/amuri/en

• Finnish Labour Museum Werstas http://www.werstas.fi/

• Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley http://www.tampere.fi/muumi

• Lenin Museum http://www.lenin.fi/

• Rupriikki Media Museum http://rupriikki.tampere.fi/

• Emil Aaltonen Museum http://www.pyynikinlinna.fi/museo/

17.00–19.00 CONFERENCE OPENING Väinö Linna Square in Finlayson Area (In case of heavy rain we will stay inside in the Auditorium of the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas) Welcoming speeches Music

Visit to the New Factory across the square Presentation of the New Factory, an open innovation platform for students and companies, and gaming industry (www.uusitehdas.fi/new-factory) Antti Salomaa (New Factory), Petri Paananen (ManseGames) and KooPee Hiltunen (NeoGames)

19.00–21.00 WELCOME RECEPTION The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area Drinks and snack food


Wednesday 29 August, 2012

8.15–12.45 Conference registration and information desk is open at the Museum Centre Vapriikki

8.15–9.00 EXHIBITIONS Dear Maggie – William Lomax and Tampere (one floor down from the entrance lobby), In Flight – Birds at Vapriikki (next to Vapriikki Auditorium) and Innovations (2nd floor) are open to the Conference participants.

9.00–11.00 PLENARY 1. Museum Centre Vapriikki Keynote presentations in Vapriikki Auditorium Chair: Jytte Thorndahl (DEN) Words of welcome: Jytte Thorndahl

9.00–9.30 Keynote speech by Dr. Katariina Mauranen, Imperial College, (UK/Finland): Look beyond the machine. Displaying Intangible Ideas Through Very Tangible Technology Artefacts.

9.30–10.15 Keynote speech by Professor Robert Bud, Science Museum / University of Ghent (UK): Resolving the Problem of the Abstract: Turning Concepts into Stories

10.15–10.30 Coffee break

10.30–11.10 Keynote speech by Deputy director Yin Hao, China Science and Technology Museum, China: On the Development and Innovation of Science and Technology Museums in China

11.10–11.20 Mariana Salgado (FIN): Open Knowledge, open GLAM

11.20–11.45 Introduction to the exhibitions in Vapriikki, especially – Birds in Flight, Researcher Marjo Meriluoto-Jaakkola – Innovations, Project Manager Kimmo Antila

11.45–12.45 Lunch in Vapriikki

12.45–13.00 A short walk from Vapriikki to The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Finlayson Area

13.00–16.00 Sessions 1 and 2 will take place at The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Finlayson Area


13.00–16.00 SESSION 1. ROLE OF THE MUSEUM Werstas Auditorium, ground floor Chair: Teemu Ahola (FIN)

13.00–13.30 Kalle Kallio (FIN): Museum that was Never Built

13.30–14.00 Jytte Thorndahl (DEN): The Danish Solar Cars: From Student Race Cars to Museum Objects. Storytelling at the Danish Museum of Energy

14.00–14.30 Anne Vähätalo (FIN): Museum Activities at Aalto University School of Engineering


15.00–15.30 Hazel Edwards (UK): The Last Frontier: How can Museums Encourage Young Women to Engage with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)?

15.30–16.00 Irena Marušič (Slovenia): Science for Teenagers, Building Bridges Between Museums and Educational Institutions

13.00–16.00 SESSION 2. MUSEUM RENOvATIONS Galleria Bertel, 2nd floor The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area Chair: David Demant, Australia

13.00–13.30 Johannes-Geert Hagmann (GER): The Future Initiative of the Deutsches Museum

13.30–14.00 Alexander Sigelen (GER): Recent Developments of the Permanent Exhibition of the Technoseum Approaches to Connect Science Education with the History of Technology and Society

14.00–14.30 Davor Fulanovic (CRO): Renovation of the Technical Museum in Zagreb


15.00–15.30 Hanna Kyläniemi (FIN): Arktikum and Pilke in Rovaniemi – One Museum and Two Science Centers as neighbours: Three Big Institutions in the Landmark Buildings

15.30–16.00 Vadim Dogadaylo (RUS): Moscow Polytechnic Museum Reconstruction

16.00–16.15 Break

16.15–17.45 Sessions 3 and 4 in Werstas


16.15–18.15 SESSION 3. HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY ANd SCIENCE REPRESENTEd ON THE SITES ANd MUSEUMS Werstas Auditorium, ground floor The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area Chair: Panu Nykänen (FIN)

16.15–16.45 Elvira Merkusheva (RUS): Innovative Uses for Traditional Technology: a New Vision of an Old Theme (by the Experience of Russian Eco-industrial park “Old Demidov’s plant” in Nizhniy Tagil

16.45–17.15 Ewa Wyka (POL): Project Second Chance – From Industrial Use to Creative Impulse Co-operation of the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Cracow with other Actors

17.15-–17.45 Éva Vámos (HUN): Real Homes as Part of the Technical Museums Exhibitions

17.45–18.15 Roman V. Artemenko (RUS): History of Technology in Russia in First Decade of XXI Century: Transition to Destination Unknown

16.15–17.15 SESSION 4. GAMES ANd INTERACTIvE EXPERIENCES AT THE MUSEUMS Galleria Bertel, 2nd floor The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area Chair: Outi Penninkangas (FIN)

16.15–16.45 Carolina Islas Sedano (MEX): Let’s promote Innovative and Enjoyable Experiences in Museums: A Case Study of TekGame.

16.45–17.15 Jari Kettunen (FIN): Digital Games as Tool for Designing Exhibition

19.30–21.30 RECEPTION IN vAPRIIkkI MUSEUM RESTAURANT vALSSI Reception at Museum Centre Vapriikki hosted by the City of Tampere


Thursday 30 August, 2012

8.15–12.45 Conference registration and information desk is open Museum Centre Vapriikki

8.15–9.00 EXHIBITIONS Dear Maggie – William Lomax and Tampere (one floor down from the entrance lobby), In Flight – Birds at Vapriikki (next to Vapriikki Auditorium) and Innovations (2nd floor) are open to the Conference participants.

9.00–11.45 PLENARY 2. Vapriikki Auditorium Chair: Kimmo Antila (FIN)

NETWORkING IN INNOvATIvE PROjECTS

9.00–9.40 Alexander Badenoch (NL): Networking the Flexible Platform: Inventing Europe Between Museums, Researchers and Students

9.40–10.00 Caroline Turré (FRAN): A New Innovative Exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci, the Nature of Invention

10.00–10.15 Outi Penninkangas (FIN): Sounds from the Past and Present – The Sound Museum for the Elderly People


INNOvATIvE EXHIBITION TECHNOLOGIES ANd CONCEPTS 10.30–11.00 Lily Díaz-Kommonen and Sallamaria Tikkanen (FIN): Vrouw Maria Underwater Simulation

11.00–11.30 Annakaisa Kultima (FIN): Social Media and Playful Attitude – Game Exhibition in Less than Two Months

11.30–11.45 Niklas Nylund & Matti Niinimäki (FIN): Innovative Exhibition Technologies and Projects in the Media Museum Rupriikki

11.45–12.45 Lunch in Vapriikki

11.45–13.00 A short walk from Vapriikki to The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area

13.00–15.30 Session 5 and 6 at The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Finlayson Area


13.00–16.00 SESSION 5. ENGAGING AUdIENCES WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES Werstas Auditorium, ground floor Chair: Annakaisa Kultima (FIN)

13.00–13.30 David Demant (AUST): Overcoming Obsolescence: The Story of A Digital “Rosetta Stone”

13.30–14.00 Marianne Blank (DEN): How can we Engage the Audience in our Exhibitions?


14.30–15.00 Fabian Knerr (DE): The Digital Outdoor Museum and the Options for Museums with Decentralized Sites

15.00–15.30 Rafael Sworst (POL): Could Interactive Activities Be Useful for the History of Technology?

15.30–16.00 Larisa Igorevna Zolotinkina (RUS): Implementation of the Project for Development of the A.S. Popov Memorial Museum in Contemporary Information Reality

13.00–16.00 SESSION 6. CO-OPERATION WITH dIFFERENT ACTORS Galleria Bertel, 2nd floor The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area Chair, Irena Marušič, Slovenia

13.00–13.30 Sergey Mukhametov (GER/RUS): “Dreieck der Nachhaltigkeit”. Innovational exhibit project on problems of deforestation in South America

13.30–14.00 Eija Juurola, Jussi Rasinmäki, Terike Haapoja, Liisa Kulmala, Ivaylo Dzhedzhev and Pasi Kolari: (FIN): CarbonTree Visualizes the CO2 Uptake and Release of a Scot’s Pine


14.30–15.00 Erika Koskinen-Koivisto (FIN): Project Happy Days as Cross Institutional Co-operation -New Materials and New Approaches

15.00–15.30 Dana Subova (SLOV): Presentation of Projects of the Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology supported by the European Union

15.30–16.00 Susan Ágnes Berényi (HUN) : Samuel Wass – a Hungarian Scientist


16.00–17.30 CIMUSET GENERAL ASSEMBLY in Werstas Auditorium The Finnish Labour Museum, Werstas in Finlayson Area

17.40 Bus transportation from Werstas to M/S Intti to Mustalahti Harbour

18.00–19.00 CRUISE ON THE LAkE NäSIjäRvI After the cruise, a short walk from the Mustalahti Harbour to the restaurant Amurin Helmi in the Amuri Worker’s Housing Museum.

19.15–22.30 dINNER AT AMURIN HELMI Satakunnankatu 49, 33230 Tampere. (Separate fee 40 €, please notice when registering to the conference.)

Friday 31 August, 2012

CONFERENCE dAY IN HELSINkI 8.00 Bus departs in front of Hotel Cumulus, Tampere for Helsinki Cumulus Koskikatu, Address: Koskikatu 5, Tampere The bus will stop at Hotel Kauppi after leaving from Hotel Cumulus about 8:10.

10.30 Finnish Science Centre Heureka http://www.heureka.fi/portal/englanti/

10.30–11.30 PLENARY 3. EXPERIMENTING ANd LEARNING IN SCIENCE CENTERS Heureka Chair: Kati Tyystjärvi (FIN)

10.30–11.00 Keynote Speech by professor Per-Edvin Persson, Finnish Science Center Heureka: Rethinking the Science Centre Model

11.00–11.30 Anastasia Filippoupoliti & Dimitris Koliopoulos (GRE): Science Museums/Centres and Early Childhood Education: Some Possible Factors that should Affect the Conceptual Dimension of Educational Programmes

Brief introduction to Heureka, followed by free exploration of the exhibitions

12.30 Lunch in Heureka


13.30 Busses depart from Heureka

14.00 Museum of Technology http://www.tekniikanmuseo.fi/engl_info.html Brief introduction to the Museum, followed by free exploration of the exhibitions

15.30 Coffee Break

16.15 Busses depart from Museum of Technology to Tampere

There are good connections from Viikki area to downtown Helsinki by public transportation.

Ask for information if you plan to stay in Helsinki or if you need to get to the Helsinki airport on our way back to Tampere.

19.00 Bus arrives in front of Hotel Cumulus

If necessary, the bus will drive by Hotel Kauppi before arriving to the city center.

Cumulus Koskikatu, Address: Koskikatu 5, Tampere.


kEYNOTE SPEAkERSDr. Katariina Mauranen Look Beyond the Machine. Displaying Intangible Ideas Through Very Tangible Technology Artefacts.Plenary 1. Museum Centre Vapriikki 9.00–9.30

Katariina Mauranen recently completed her PhD at Imperial College London. Her thesis examined displaying academic history through museum exhibitions. She is the editor in chief of the Finnish journal for the history of technology, Tekniikan Waiheita. She has worked in a number of museums in the UK and in Finland, most recently the Maritime Museum of Finland.

Professor Robert BudResolving the Problem of the Abstract: Turning Concepts into Stories Plenary 1. Museum Centre Vapriikki 9.30–10.15

Dr Robert Bud is an historian of science, technology and medicine. Also the Prin-cipal Curator of Medicine at the Science Museum, he has worked at the Museum in a variety of roles, for 30 years. He was educated in Liberal Studies in Science in Manchester, one of the world’s first science studies departments, and in the His-tory and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he took his doctorate. Fascinated by the process of storytelling in the Museum medium he has directed the development of major narrative and collections based web-sites at the Science Museum as well as several major exhibitions. He has been appointed to the honorary position of the Sarton Professor for 2012/13 at the University of Ghent, Belgium.


Deputy Director Yin HaoOn the Development and Innovation of Science and Technology Museums in ChinaPlenary 1. Museum Centre Vapriikki 10.30–11.10

Mr. Yin Hao has worked as deputy minister of Science Popularization Depart-ment of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) for many years, and now he is working in China Science and Technology Museum as the deputy director under the leadership of Dr. Xu Yanhao. He has rich work experience in popularizing science and technology.

Professor Per-Edvin Persson Rethinking the Science Centre ModelPlenary 3. Heureka 31.8. 10.30–11.00

Professor Per-Edvin Persson has been Director of Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre since 1991. He has held numerous national and international positions of trust, including being President of the Nordic Science Centre Association 1987–1991, President of the European Science Centre network ECSITE (Brussels) 1997–1998 and President of the international branch organisation Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), based in Washington, D.C., in 2004–2005. He served as Chairman of the First Science Centre World Congress in Finland in 1996, and has served on the Programme Committee of subsequent World Congresses. Under his leadership, Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre has developed into a science centre of international renown. Dr. Persson has received, e.g. the Finnish State Prize of Information in 1987, the Oskar von Miller medal in gold from Deut-sches Museum in 2002, and the ASTC Fellow Award for Outstanding Contribu-tion in 2007. He is Knight (1st grade) of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

ABSTRACTSCIMUSET2012

Brighter Perspectives for Science & Technology Museums Tampere • Helsinki • Finland

28th–31st of August 2012


kEYNOTE SPEECHESChair: Jytte Thorndahl, President of CIMUSET, Danish Museum of Energy, Bjerringbro, Denmark

Look Beyond the Machine. Displaying Intangible Ideas Through Very Tangible Technology ArtefactsKatariina MAURANENImperial College London, UK / Tekniikan Waiheita, Finland

The idea of displaying technology in a museum may seem simple. Technological artefacts are often readily available so there is no shortage of material objects to display. However, the stories and meanings of these objects are much more nu-anced than their fairly solid exteriors may imply. In itself, history is more difficult to display than machinery, as the context is not immediately visible or obvious to the visitor. In order to see the story the visitor and, crucially, the curator who conveys the story, must look beyond the physical machine.

I wish to address two distinct but interconnected issues. One is the question of audiences: who are technological artefacts are displayed for? The other is the role of history and other intangible ideas in technology museums. More specifically, I will explore ways of conveying abstract concepts from the past to a museum au-dience through technological artefacts. As an example I will use the Portsmouth block making machinery, large, heavy nineteenth-century machine tools, dis-played in three distinctive ways to somewhat different audiences. My ain in ex-ploring these displays is to raise questions about the kind of history displayed in technology museums and how this has been, and can be, accomplished.

Plenary 1Vapriikki

Auditorium9.00-9.30

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On the Development and Innovation of Science and Technology Museums in ChinaYin HAOChina Science and Technology Museum, Beijing

In recent years, China’s governments at all levels have paid great attention to the development of science and technology museums and science centers which have had rapid growth both in quantity and scale: from the end of 2005 to the end of 2011, the amount increased from about 400 to 600, and the specific type of science and technology museums, such as science centers, increased with the most rapid development from 43 to about 100, together with a multitude of large-scale and super-huge type science centers.

At present, there are more than 20 science and technology museums under con-struction. This trend will continue in the future, but the principal characteristic has changed to promoting the capability and level of exhibition and teaching to-wards popularization of science, and the key emphasis in work includes promot-ing the level of exhibition design, strengthening the capability of scientific edu-cation and the popularization of science through network, and fostering profes-sional personnel in popularization of science. All these aim at accelerating the step of building the international first-rate science and technology museums.

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Museum that was Never BuiltKalle KALLIOThe Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere, Finland

Finland industrialized quite late, just like other countries in the European periph-ery. Also the museum institution developed slowly in the nineteenth century; museums were relatively small and mostly built for nationalistic and rather tradi-tional purposes. Industrial heritage was overlooked in Finland still in the 1960s. However, the first plans for industrial museums are surprisingly old. Already in 1884, associations of crafts and industry asked the government to found a new museum. Finnish manufacturers desired a model collection of industrial prod-ucts. They aimed for an institution like South Kensington Museum or Musée des Arts et Métiers. There were several museum plans in late 1800s and early 1900s but Finnish industrial museum was never built.

These early museum plans looked interestingly different from today’s museums of industry and technology. Museum’s promoters were definitely not planning a heritage organisation, they wanted to improve and distribute technology. At the end, museum was probably not the most efficient tool to develop industry, technology or workers’ know-how. In the 1900s, technicians became critical of the museum plans and found it far more important to concentrate in vocational schools and avoid building an expensive and inadequate museum of industry.

When these practical objectives lost their significance, discussion could focus on preservation of industrial heritage. There soon emerged plans to build up a mu-seum of technology as a cultural institution like Stockholm’s Technical Museum, founded in 1923. Finland’s two major technical were finally opened in Tampere in 1958 and Helsinki in 1969.

Session 1Werstas

Auditorium13.00–13.30

SESSION 1. ROLE OF THE MUSEUMChair: Teemu Ahola, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere, Finland

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The Danish Solar Cars: From Student Race Cars to Museum Objects – Storytelling at the Danish Museum of EnergyJytte THORNDAHLDanish Museum of Energy, Bjerringbro, Denmark

In 2000, the Danish Museum of Energy was given ‘Solar car Denmark III’, the pro-totype of the Solar car that went across Australia three times. In 2010, the mu-seum decided to give it a good makeover as the construction and glass fibre cover needed that. Thousands of schoolchildren and other visitors had seen and studied the car, and at the museum we decided that we wanted to conserve it as an important part of the collection. The Danish solar cars were all made by en-gineering students at the Soenderborg Engeneering School and they took part in the solar races during the years from 1987 to 2000. The solar car is very good for inspiring students and others in an innovative direction and it gives the cura-tors and guides a chance of good story telling. In my presentation I will tell you about the history of the car and evaluate its importance in the collection of the museum.

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Museum Activities at Aalto University School of EngineeringAnne VÄHÄTALO Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Universities are given by the Council of Europe a recommendation to safeguard their heritage. Former Helsinki University of Technology donated its collections to the Museum of Technology in 1969, keeping only scientific collections. When the Aalto University had started, Dean Matti Pursula formed a working team that gave a memo including guidelines to realize this recommendation. In practice, the work is being divided between the main archives, the library, the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, and the professorship of Industrial History. The last one of this quartet has been recreating a co-operation with the Museum of Technology. Due to common and recent history, co-operation at the moment is mainly sharing knowledge, materials and some hopeful ideas of arranging exhi-bitions together in the future. One wish is also to discuss and find some working solutions in integrating collections and history fluently into the education.

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The Last Frontier: How Can Museums Encourage Young Women to Engage with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)?Hazel EDWARDSDiscovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

“One of my strongest memories as a child is standing in the Science Museum in New-castle’s Exhibition park, looking at the glorious Turbinia and thinking what a fine thing it must be to be an engineer and build something so beautiful and so useful.”

This is the inspiring message from Chi Onwurah MP, patron of the Women in STEM (WiSTEM) project at Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne in the northeast of England. Turbinia was the first steam powered vessel and provides the dramatic centrepiece to Discovery. Inspired by its beauty and function, Chi went on to be an electrical engineer before being elected in 2010 as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle Central. Whilst Chi’s career offers a compelling story, her experience is the exception rather than the rule. It is a sad truth that four decades after she was inspired, only 8 per cent of United Kingdom’s professional engineers are women.

The Discovery project is going to use the life stories of women, both past and present, as the key to engaging young women in the STEM subjects. The core of the project will be an exhibition of portraits and objects on loan from the Nation-al Portrait Gallery and Science Museum representing women who have made significant contributions to STEM nationally over the past 200 years. We will also be commissioning contemporary portraits for the exhibition, featuring women who are working in the STEM arena today in the northeast. A complimentary schedule of activities will offer a range of opportunities for young women to ac-tively discover and develop their own scientific or engineering talents. The pro-gramme will open with a conference on International Women’s Day. There will be further opportunities for young women to meet high achieving female scientists and engineers via master classes, workshops, mentoring, and industry site visits.

It is hoped that this paper will stimulate discussion on the role museums can play in encouraging more young women to study and pursue careers in the STEM subjects and to explore the potential for international collaborations by CIMU-SET members.


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Science and Teenagers: Building Bridges Between Museums and Educational InstitutionsIrena MARUŠIČ Technical Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

It’s a well known fact (relevant for most museums) that teenagers are pretty dif-ficult a target group to attract. But it is important that we do reach them, as they are on the cusp of deciding what direction to take in their higher education and future career, and museums have the potential to inspire and suggest possible future directions.

To bring science professionals closer to teenagers, our museum decided to co-laborate with universities and other educational instititions with events called “Science Days”. The aim was to introduce recent developments in their particular fields, and even more importantly, to start an active dialogue between research-ers on one side and young people on the other. It all started 10 years go with “The Days of Pysics and Chain Experiment”. In 2012, we are already organizing six different Science Days, which are becoming increasingly popular with school groups.

Session 1Werstas

Auditorium

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The Future Initiative of the Deutsches MuseumJohannes-Geert HAGMANNDeutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

After more than almost 90 years since first opening its doors on the museum is-land, the Deutsches Museum is in urgent need of restoration and modernization. Founded in 2008, the future initiative of the Deutsches Museum is the largest renovation project of the museum since its rebuilding after WWII. Funded by a public-private partnership, the project is forecasting major renovation works in the main building, the construction of a central storage facility and the revision of around 50000 m2 of exhibition surface to be completed in 2025.

The present talk gives an overview of the present status of the project while the main focus is on the process of master planning the new/updated exhibitions: Do you need to reinvent a museum, and if yes, how would you do it?

Session 2Galleria Bertel

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SESSION 2. MUSEUM RENOvATIONS Chair: David Demant, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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Recent Developments of the Permanent Exhibition of the TECHNOSEUM: Approaches to Connect Science Education with the History of Technology and SocietyAlexander SIGELENTECHNOSEUM, Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim, Germany

The paper presents recent developments of the permanent exhibition of the TECHNOSEUM as a model for integrating science center modules in a museum dedicated towards the history of technology and society. Thereby, it takes a closer look on different approaches to interactive presentations of science and technology, including cutting-edge technologies of today, by hands-on exhibits, workshops and demonstrations. Opened in 1990, the TECHNOSEUM connects the history of technology and society in a chronological tour through the history of industrialization, starting in the 18th century, and its influence on working and everyday life.

This initial concept was fundamentally expanded between 2004 and 2011 by gradually adding three experimental areas – Elementa 1, 2 and 3 – containing more than 110 experiments. These areas are not separated from the historical ex-hibition, but embedded in the chronological narrative and the design of the tour. This integrated and interdisciplinary approach shows the multiple interactions between scientific discoveries, technological developments and social changes by connecting hands-on experiments with historical exhibits.

Elementa 1, located at the start of the chronological tour, demonstrates ground-breaking inventions in science and technology at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Elementa 2, at the center of the museum, highlights experiments from the high industrialization period around 1900. The emphasis of Elementa 3, at the end of the tour, lies on technological developments shaping the 21st century. Thereby, the paper focuses particularly on the special requirements on exhibition design and interactivity by presenting applications from the hight-ech-sector like robotics, sensor technology or virtual reality.


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Towards the New Exhibition Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency: Education & Information Centre at the Technical Museum in ZagrebDavor FULANOVICTechnical museum, Zagreb, Croatia

Technical Museum in Zagreb has a tradition of presentation and education of particular technical fields to its visitors, and has contributed to a higher techni-cal literacy of the public. The new programme content will be introduced: the permanent exhibitions and further activities which will motive and stimulate the visitors (users) to different thinking and behaviour patters. Developing the con-cept of the permanent exhibition Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency has been created on such principle.

The opening of the new permanent exhibition covering 400 m² in the museum’s central display area will establish an educational centre on energy, energy ef-ficiency, and renewable energy sources. The exhibition’s object display includes the following sections: biomass, wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, water power, energy efficiency in building construction, and energy efficiency of household appliances. A separate part of the exhibition is an educational seg-ment comprised of library reading material area and the area for presentations and workshop gatherings.

The target audience for the Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency ex-hibition is the general public and especially the youth (primary school seniors, high school pupils and students).

The exhibition communicates a straightforward message: the raised level of awareness and knowledge about energy and the environment, renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency related to sustainable development, as well as the adoption and application of the newly acquired knowledge.


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Arktikum and Pilke in Rovaniemi: One Museum and Two Science Centers as Neighbors Three Big Institutions in the Landmark BuildingsHanna KYLÄNIEMIThe Provincial Museum of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

What kind of a co-operation is and could be between a museum and two science centers around the same yard? How could these three big, strong and different policies work together? What does the co-operation demand? What are the ad-vantageous possibilities?

Arktikum (opened in 1992) is both a museum and a science centre. Arktikum tells the story of the North. The exhibitions provide a comprehensive section of the history and culture of Lapland as well as of Arctic knowledge. The Provincial Museum of Lapland leads guests into the archeology, history, culture and nature of Finnish Lapland. The Museum is owned by the City of Rovaniemi. The main purpose of the Science Centre of the Arctic Center is to popularize Arctic science and research through functional exhibitions. The Science Center introduces the peoples and animals of the Arctic as well as details the ongoing changes that are affecting the region. The Arctic Centre is part of the University of Lapland.

Pilke Science Centre (opened in 2011) teaches visitors about sustainable use of the northern forests and about the diverse range of products and commodities connected to the forests. Pilke’s life is rooted in the present moment and in the bright future of finding many uses for the forests. The exhibition of the Pilke Sci-ence Centre transfers knowledge through investigation and active participation. The Pilke Science Center is part of Metsähallitus’ Corporate Communications.


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Moscow Polytechnic Museum ReconstructionVadim DOGADAYLOPolytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia

The State Polytechnic Museum is the main Russian national museum of science and technology as well as the main Russian educational and cultural leisure cent-er. At the same time, it is one of the oldest science and technology museums in the world.

In the period of 2012–2016, the museum will be undergoing a large reconstruc-tion and total change of exposition concept. The museum modernization strat-egy is aimed at solving two main problems: to preserve the historical museum building; and to create a very open cultural and educational space, satisfying the needs and interests of various visitors of all ages.

The architectural concept design executed by Japanese company junya.ishigami+associates, the winner of the international competition, intends to fully preserve and restore the elevated parts of the building and its historical facades, and to create an innovative “museum-park” at the basement level, a very open social area. In order to open the basement it is proposed to provide a landscape-like, expansive and sloped areaway surrounding the building, to connect the basement to the pedestrian underpasses and to cover the courtyard by the large extremely transparent roof. The author’s daring aim is to combine two architec-tural directions – classic and modern – without compromising.

At present, the Museum has only 350,000 visitors per year, after the reconstruc-tion it is supposed to accept two million visitors a year. So, the concept design provides a complete change in functional zoning of the museum and a consider-able extension of the public space.


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Innovative Uses for Traditional Technology: A New Vision of an Old Theme Elvira MERKUSHEVANizhniy Tagil Museum, Russia

The Nizhniy Tagil Museum is build up on the premises of the oldest Iron and Steel Works of Nizhny Tagil, founded by Akinfiy Demidov in 1720 and represents the origins of the regional metallurgical industry. In my presentation I will elaborate the experiences of Russian Eco-industrial park “Old Demidov’s plant” in Nizhniy Tagil.

Session 3Werstas


SESSION 3. HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY ANd SCIENCE REPRESENTEd ON THE SITES ANd MUSEUMSChair: Panu Nykänen, Aalto University, Finland

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From Industrial Use to Creative Impulse: Presentation of the Central European Project Second ChanceEwa WYKA Museum of Municipal Engineering, Cracow, Poland

The shift from industrial to service-oriented model of society resulted in aban-donment of many industrial areas that can no longer be used as production sites. This brought an important question about the future use of these facilities of undeniable historical meaning. In 2009, ten institutions from five European cit-ies established cooperation under the program entitled Second Chance – From Industrial Use to Creative Impulse. Its main purpose is to develop common stand-ards in order to help preserve and revitalize monuments of industrial architec-ture by converting them into places suitable for cultural and artistic enterprises.

The presentation focuses on Second Chance participants, showing details of the program and referring to the current level of its realization. The presentation also informs about the enterprises conducted within the project at the Museum of Municipal Engineering, located in the oldest tram depot in Cracow.


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Real Homes as Part of a Technical Museum’s Exhibition: A Classical and a New approach to Present Lives of Everyday People from the Aspect of Technical DevelopmentÉva VÁMOSHungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, BudapestVera PeterdiHungarian National Museum, BudapestPéter RostásThe Budapest History MuseumMiklós MercziHungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, Budapest

The new temporary exhibition of the Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport gives an overall review of the technical development in the Hun-garian part of the Dual Monarchy during the time space from 1880 to 1914. It embraces the state of development of railways, city traffic, navigation, photogra-phy, the post, agriculture, banking, housing and entertainment. Part of the exhi-bition presents the ways of life of different social strata at the epoch by showing a worker’s home and an upper middle class dining room. The new approach of presentation is given by making the visitor acquainted with the biographies of the former tenants of the worker’s home and the owners of the upper middle class dining room as well as with the history of the building and builders of the house where the objects of the latter came from. The ethnographer’s view was used to a technical history exhibition. The ensemble of the worker’s home con-tains over 3,000 objects out of which the exhibition shows 110 items. The story of the city family gives rare authenticity to the exhibition. Some of the household machines shown can be made to work, thus the visitor may feel at home in the 19th century.

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History of Technology in Russia in first Decade of XXI Century: Transition to Destination UnknownRoman V. ARTEMENKODept. of History of Technology of Institute for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

In my paper I would like to discuss present situation and problems of develop-ment of History of Science in Russia within the frames of last decade, as well as identify ways to future development in co-operation with non-academician actors.

It shouldn’t be a real surprise that under Soviet regime Marxism as basic philo-sophical ideology has been applied to all branches of knowledge – including history of technology. History of technology itself has been used as powerful propagandistic tool of superiority of socialistic society over capitalistic one. So-viet historians of technology were rather well-trained engineers with years of experience in industry or military, than well-educated historians – as result such researches were able to show deep and detailed blue-print of development in some segment of technology, but understandable only to a reader with ade-quate degree in technology.

Such a legacy. In addition to it - problems we have a deal with everyday:

1) Absence of theoretical and methodological basis for researches. 2) Age of researchers – overage is close to 75y.o. with lack of 40–50y.o. genera-

tion.3) Extremely poor support from government, federal foundations and no spon-

sorship from private companies.4) Lack of primary sources – partly due to “secret” policy of archives, but mainly

due to underdeveloped communicational technologies.

Cooperation with universities, museums and volunteers not just social duty of academician science of today’s Russia, but probably the only way to survive to all the actors of historical culture…


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Let’s Promote Innovative and Enjoyable Experiences in Museums: a Case Study of TekGameCarolina Islas SEDANO University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Museums can, potentially, help our societies to develop, and to overcome our modern economical challenges by promoting their visitors’ experiences towards innovative thinking. Apparently, museums’ main activity has been the collection of facts and artifacts. Passionate curators search for ways to transmit their collection’s information to their visitors in a diversity of interactive methods according to the available resources. Those methods range from guided visits and audio guides to role-playing games and workshops. More recently, museums have also promoted themselves as learning environments, that is, by organizing the museum’s resourc-es and providing suitable tools to facilitate the learning process of their visitors.

Despite the importance of the museums’ collections for our societies and their rele-vance as learning environments one challenge remains: nowadays museums must compete for the individuals’ time to visit them. Museums are one of the multiple options available – e.g. amusement parks, cinemas, shopping centers, sport cent-ers, interactive home systems – for individuals to spend their leisure time with. Ad-ditionally, and more importantly, today we live in an era in which individuals search for experiences. Hence the question curators, and the society in general, should be asking is: “what kind of experiences museums want and can offer to their visitors?”

Following the previous line of thought, a team of researchers from the Educational Technology research group at the University of Eastern Finland has explored for over five years how to promote playful learning experiences. Through this journey we realize that the museums’ collections in connection with the curators’ knowl-edge related to each item are the assets that support the visitors’ playful learning experiences. Furthermore, through the playful learning experiences, the visitors and curators are influenced towards innovation. Our approach has been to use global and modern digital technology, such as mobile phones, and integrate it with the museum’s strengths so that we can design and develop Hypercontextual-ized Games (HCG). An HCG is a locally designed game system, which helps its players to gain information about their different subjects by using specific elements of the con-tinuously changing context in the game.

The process of designing and developing an HCG implies to create a team be-tween curators and experts in educational technologies, in our case computer sci-entists and game designers. In the team it has been fundamental to promote trust to encourage collaboration that contributes to learning from each other. The proc-ess facilitates the creation of knowledge of the team members by having access to


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meaningful information and know-how and overall by interpreting and reflecting such information to produce an HCG for the visitors. The resultant HCG delivers an innovative view of the collections’ exposed in the museum, and promotes a playful experience on-site. Additionally, as all team members are co-authors of an HCG, they often feel inclined to improve and keep the HCG sustainable, offering long-lasting opportunities for the curators and also for the visitors to see, explore and experience the knowledge enclosed in the museum. In this presentation we want to share some of our learning experiences while designing and developing TekGame, a location-based game developed with and for the Museum of Technol-ogy in Helsinki.

Digital Games as Tools for Designing Exhibition Jari KETTUNENMuseum of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

In the past couple of decades, gaming has risen to the center of media and popular culture and become part of social life. Digital games are nowadays huge business and hyped issue. Even schools, day care centers and libraries have shown interest in games, and they apply games for educational uses.

Then how can one exploit games in designing exhibition? Surely there are plenty of games to play in museums. But one can use games also as tool for designing ex-hibit. There are lot of similarities between game designing and exhibitions. Some key features are comprehensive in (digital) games. Such are, for example, magic circle in other words rules and borderlines intensity, playfulness and experience. These are also the key elements of good exhibition.

Magic circle is common in manuscripts or stories of exhibitions. It creates the bor-derlines and rules of an exhibition and guides visitors through it. Thus both games and exhibitions are formalized playing activities.

Intensity means that an exhibition is built in such a way that visitors immerse themselves into its world: the adventure’s world encloses the gamer into the magic circle. While exploring the exhibition, visitors can discover their own path and rate of intensity.

Playfulness means that an exhibition can be edutainment. As in games, there are many interactive points that can be small puzzles or some triggering audiovisual content when visitor pass by. These points can educate, entertain, or guide visitors’ journey through the exhibition. Overall, all three elements above define the visi-tors’ experience.

Session 4Galleria Bertel16.45–17.15

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Networking the Flexible Platform: Inventing Europe Between Museums, Researchers and StudentsAlexander BADENOCHMargaret GoldSuzanne LommersSlawomir LotyszJohan W. SchotFoundation for the History of Technology, the Netherlands

The age of digital heritage offers new opportunities – as well as new challenges – for rethinking both European history as well as museum collections. Science and technology, as supposedly ‘universal’ knowledge, offer a prime area for tracing the transnational interweaving of modern European history. In the digital envi-ronment, they also offer an opportunity to create new links between academic research, heritage collections, and university educators across borders.

This challenge lies at the heart of Inventing Europe, an online virtual exhibition that is being constructed in connection with the forthcoming six-part book series Making Europe: Technology and Transformations 1850–2000 (see www.makingeurope.eu). Inventing Europe works in partnership with a consortium of cultural heritage institutions throughout Europe, especially science and technol-ogy museums, but also media archives, and local and national history museums. These images, sounds and videos, plus a large and growing number of linked items, allow users to make new connections between the stories in the Invent-ing Europe exhibition and the rich and growing online collections of museums, archives and libraries, including the European digital library Europeana. The ex-hibition is conceived of as a flexible platform that allows each set of stakehold-ers (researchers, heritage partners and educators) to inscribe their own forms of knowledge within it and structure their interactions with the other groups. In doing so, the project is also designed to place collection objects in the centre of new forms of public dialogue.

This paper will explore the processes of translating between academic, text-based research and an object-based narrative environment. It will present the back-ground of Inventing Europe and the process of its taking shape between growing textual narratives of the Making Europe book series and the collections of the Foun-dation for the History of Technology heritage partners. It will explore the processes of selection and communication that have informed the design and content of the design, as well as the pitfalls of communication between the stakeholders.

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NETWORkING IN INNOvATIvE PROjECTSINNOvATIvE EXHIBITION TECHNOLOGIES ANd CONCEPTS Chair: Kimmo Antila, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Finland

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The paper will look at the emerging exhibition from the point of view of heritage partners. It will explore how both the voices of collection holders, as well as their exhibitionary strategies, can be translated into a transnational heritage environ-ment. This will be based on testing the new platform alongside new online exhi-bitions hosted by the partners.

First results and experiences of using the online exhibition as a tool for teaching at university level will be presented. The paper builds on experiences of using the prototype exhibition Europe, Interrupted as part of history of technology educa-tion. In addition, it will explore new use cases where students can form their own trajectories through the site, gather new information around objects, and raise new questions for European history.

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A New Innovative Exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci, The Nature of InventionCaroline TURRÉ Cité des sciences et de l’industrie – Universcience, Paris, France

This exhibition, that will be presented at the Cité des sciences during 10 months, from October 2012 to August 2013, was conceived by Universcience in partner-ship with the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vin-ci in Milan and the Deutsches Museum in Munich that will host it at a subsequent stage.

The primary objective of the exhibition is to allow the broad public to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci and the specific nature of his genius. The innovative side of the project is to shed light on Leonardo’s approach to nature as a source of invention. It will be completed by a selection of the magnificent collection of machine models belonging to the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecno-logia, and the notebooks behind them. But it will also single out the conceptual links between this method and some examples of contemporary research and invention in the field of biomimetics and bioinspiration (thus, the expertise of German companies in the field will be highlighted, thanks to the support of the Deutsches Museum). Interactive exhibits will allow the visitor to become an ac-tive player in experimenting with some of Leonardo’s “techniques”.

This exhibition is also very innovative, inasmuch as it provides a chance not only to highlight the transdisciplinary nature of his reasoning (between the arts, sci-ence and technology) but also to challenge received wisdom. Besides, it deals also with an innovative cooperation between a technical heritage museum (Mu-seo Leonardo da Vinci) and a science museum that doesn’t own a collection (Uni-verscience).

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Plenary 2Vapriikki Auditorium10.00–10.15

Sounds from the Past and Present: The Sound Museum for the Elderly PeopleOuti PENNINKANGASMedia Museum Rupriikki, Tampere, Finland

The sound museum is an interactive sound installation, which was created for the Koukkuniemi home for the elderly in the spring of 2011. It is a tool that allows the people living in Koukkuniemi to reminisce and share their memories with the help of auditory and haptic cues.

There are different kinds of objects laid out on the table and each object has its corresponding sound. The invisible technical interface is based on RFID technol-ogy. The sound starts playing when the object is placed on the elevated area in the middle of the table. More complex soundscapes can be created by placing multiple objects on the table at the same time. The objects and their sounds are divided into four different categories: Tampere, nature, work and leisure.

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Vrouw Maria Underwater Simulation Lily DÍAZ-KOMMONENAalto University, Helsinki, FinlandSallamaria TIKKANENNational Board of Antiquities, Helsinki, Finland

National Board of Antiquities (NBA) and Aalto University School of Art and De-sign have created an interactive, real-time, virtual reality 3D simulation about the shipwreck of the eighteenth century Dutch merchant vessel Vrouw Maria that sank in the Finnish waters on its way to St. Petersburg in 1771, bearing a precious cargo destined for the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.

The simulation will be available for the museum visitors at the Maritime Muse-um of Finland in Kotka in 2012. The simulation provides a unique opportunity to freely explore the wreck of Vrouw Maria as well as the underwater landscape and soundscape of the valley where the wreck is located. The gesture-based in-terface, implemented with Microsoft’s Kinect Sensor, and using the Unity 3D en-gine, aims to give a sensory experience of ‘presence’ or being there at the site. The simulation gives a virtual opportunity to see the otherwise unseen landscape at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in the depth of 40 meters, where the visibility is normally very limited. From 14 infospots visitors can find more information in the form of text, videos, photos and sounds. The simulation does not try to provide an exact experience of the site, but it gives one possible interpretation based on the scientific data collected during the archaeological fieldwork. The combina-tion of digital technology and simulation methods is very appropriate in making underwater sites more accessible in museums and to show also for non-divers the wonders of the Baltic Sea.

The simulation has been done in cooperation with a team of scientific advisors that included archaeologists, architects, marine biologists, sound specialists and a team of artists, designers and programmers who are specialists in the digital media.

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Social Media and Playful Attitude: Game Exhibition in Less than Two MonthsAnnakaisa KULTIMAUniversity of Tampere, Finland

In setting up an exhibition about the history of Finnish games, social media tools were utilized with efficient, yet playful, results. Finnish Games Then and Now game exhibition was put together in connection of Nordic DiGRA 2012 Confer-ence. The exhibition was hosted by the Rupriikki Media Museum at Tampere and organized by the Game Research Lab researchers and students from the Univer-sity of Tampere. The process of putting together the exhibition was short, but intense. The team of three researchers and 15 students consumed around 2,000 working hours within two months in doing the research, selecting the games, interviewing the group of experts, collecting the objects and games for the dis-play, and writing the texts. The team utilized Google Documents and Facebook for the communication and collaborative work. The process goals would have not been reachable without such asynchronous and synchronous social media tools.

With the help of the social media environment and the open and collaborative atmosphere, together with the effect of strict deadlines, spontaneous gamifica-tion of the exhibition process emerged: students and researchers were playing the process. The team included only one museum professional, but the shared expertise on the content matter within the team resulted in highly appreciated game exhibition. During the only six-day exhibition time, 1,018 visitors experi-enced the 45 games that were on display.

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Innovative Exhibition Technologies in the Media Museum RupriikkiNiklas NYLUNDMedia Museum Rupriikki, FinlandMatti NIINIMÄKIMånsteri, Finland

Exhibition design is constantly evolving to accommodate technologies of dif-ferent kinds. At the same time museums are interested in finding new engaging ways to interact with visitors. Contemporary interactive technology need not in-volve digital screens; rather the technologies used can apply the functionality of everyday objects to get their message across.

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Overcoming Obsolescence: The Story of a Digital ‘Rosetta Stone’David DEMANTMuseum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

This presentation deals with the innovative use of old technology in a collabora-tion between a museum and a university.

In 1964, the University of Melbourne donated CSIRAC, the first stored program electronic computer in Australia (and the fourth in the world), to Museum Victo-ria. It had been operating from 1949 to 1964 in Sydney and Melbourne. Accom-panying the computer was a large archive of material – programming manuals, courses, annual reports, staff information, correspondence, published papers, original photographs and footage, engineering drawings, and a program library of over 450 paper tape programs.

Museum Victoria worked with the CSIRAC History Team (includes former users and staff of CSIRAC) in documenting and researching the story of the computer as well as working together on books, oral histories, seminars, exhibitions and displays. CSIRAC was the first computer in the world to be programmed to play music, in 1950. The Team decided to resurrect the music. The music program pa-per tapes were read using a specially constructed tape reader and the digital information put into a PC. Circuitry and software were created to reproduce the music as faithfully as possible, even using an identical speaker similar to the one in CSIRAC.

The presentation introduces CSIRAC and how it generated music to the audi-ence. The presentation finishes with a video showing how the obsolete paper tape programs were brought to life again. It gives us hope that this can be done with other software.

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SESSION 5. ENGAGING AUdIENCES WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Chair: Annakaisa Kultima, University of Tampere, Finland

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How can we Engage the Audience in our Exhibitions?Marianne BLANKThe National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen

The presentation will describe and discuss attempts to involve audiences in exhi-bitions with the examples of a permanent exhibition at Brede Works, an industrial museum north of Copenhagen, and Europe meets the World, a temporary exhibi-tion at The National Museum in Copenhagen.

In Brede Works we have introduced The Active Ticket with different user possibili-ties: as an “object-collector” in the more traditional part of the exhibition; as a per-son through whose eyes you experience the textile-machines in the machine hall; and as a check in card for a work station in the game at the assembly line. The exhibition was designed in 2009. What conclusions can we draw now in 2012?

The temporary exhibition Europe meets the World focuses on 2,500 years of history. With a Digital Track through the exhibition, activated by the visitors, we update the main themes to the present day. Using QR codes the audience can express their opinions on certain subjects in the exhibition. The results are shared with all visi-tors in the exhibition. Other QR codes let the curators speak about the objects and give a closer look to objects than it is physically possible in the exhibition space. Will we use QR codes again in future exhibitions?

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The Digital Outdoor Museum and the Options for Museums with Decentralized SitesFabian KNERRdigitalFRUIT GbR, Gesellschaft für Museumsplanung, Hohenlinden, Germany

In cooperation with the Bayerische Sparkassenstiftung we are currently develop-ing the digital outdoor museum of the museum “The battle of Hohenlinden”. The concept is to combine culture, sports and leisure activities and to present the offers of a museum at each time even if the museum is closed. A over 55 kilometer-long bike path leads to the main target points, that means to the main battle sites of the battle of Hohenlinden. On these places we offer the possibility to sit on a bench, relax and be informed. The central element is a navigation and information app for iPhones. This application based on a map with GPS tracking provides the user with an intuitive user interface and enables a quick and easy navigation.

The user is informed of the target point and asked to sit down and get the offer. The idea is that there is no need for reading text on the display. Therefore, audio information, accompanied with still images (in the form of a slideshow) and video and animation sequences are offered. At selected points, the user has the possibil-ity of getting detailed information based on an augmented reality view with static images as well as and this is innovative video and animation sequences and a hidden object game.

In addition to the target points, the user gets on the graphical user interface a detailed description of the route by landmarks documented with photos and ac-companied by audio information in the form of a spoken text. Motivation points make the ride more entertaining and offer attractive scenic impressions, churches and other distinctive buildings, certificates relating to the battle (eg. votive tablet) or snap-and picnic facilities (eg. banks or inns). These elements provide not only information about the cultural heritage and recreation but also guidance. The GPS tracking locates targets, landmarks and motivation points. Before arriving at a cer-tain point, the user is automatically alerted to this information.


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Could Interactive Activities be Useful for the History of Technology?Rafal SWORSTMuseum of Municipal Engineering, Cracow, Poland

During the presentation previous and current works based on two different ar-eas: exhibitions of historical objects and interactive models in the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Cracow will be presented. For educational purposes, the museum is trying to combine these two types of exhibits. The museum is one of the first institutions in Poland which creates interactive exhibitions. Since 2008, the museum manages an open-air exhibition called Lem Science Garden of Experiences.

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Implementation of the Project for Development of the A.S. Popov Memorial Museum in Contemporary Information RealityLarisa Igorevna ZOLOTINKINAA.S. Popov Memorial Museum, Saint-Petersburg, RussiaAnna Pavlovna KonstantinovaA.S. Popov Memorial Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The paper is devoted to the main stages of development of scientific and edu-cational activities of the A.S. Popov Memorial Museum. The museum exposition as a unique collection of radio engineering authentic devices and apparatus and as a reflection of cultural and scientific world at the end of the 19th and the be-ginning of the 20th century, is shown at length. The foundation of the museum collection demonstrating the history of physics, in particular, radio and electri-cal engineering and also the life and activities of Popov as a great inventor and pioneer in radio engineering, is presented. The most significant events to com-memorate A.S. Popov’s contribution into radio engineering, his collaboration with E.Ducretet, the French engineer and entrepreneur, and Popov’s internation-al recognition are described.

New contemporary approaches regarding principles of creativity and interactivi-ty to upgrade museum expositions are touched upon. The possibility of combin-ing the most significant events in the history of electrical engineering, its present achievements and further tendencies based on modernized museum exposi-tions, is under discussion. The museum role in keeping up contacts not only with other national and international museums but also with educational establish-ments is dealt with. The significance of museum activities for popularizing and promoting the greatest achievements in science and technology is emphasized.

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“Dreieck der Nachhaltigkeit”. Innovational Exhibit Project on Problems of Deforestation in South AmericaSergey MukhametovPolytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia

“Dreieck der Nachhaltigkeit” is an an innovational exhibit which presents the unique information about problems of deforestation in South America. It is the result of a combination of the three research areas related to the principle of linked Science: deforestation, linked data and HCI: Human-Computer Interac-tion.

We have not only the interesting principle of interacting with information with visualization and analysis which is done by gestures, but also the unique set of data consisting of 60 million datasets, specially prepared for the exhibit and is open to the public for the first time.


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SESSION 6. CO-OPERATION WITH dIFFERENT ACTORSChair: Irena Marušič, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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CarbonTree visualizes the CO2 Uptake and Release of a Scots PineEija JUUROLAJussi RasinmäkiTerike HaapojaLiisa KULMALAIvaylo DzhedzhevPasi KolariUniversity of Helsinki, Finland

Since the 1980s, scientists have been interested in the role of forest in the miti-gation to climate change. However, the interaction between atmosphere and biosphere is complicated, and therefore the popularizing of the obtained results has been problematic. CarbonTree, a co-operation between art, software devel-opment and science, has succeeded in transforming the novel scientific knowl-edge in a modern and experiential way to anyone interested in the action of forest ecosystems.

The core of CarbonTree is a webpage (www.hiilipuu.fi) presenting the carbon ex-change of a Scots pine forest at SMEARII station that is an intensively equipped world-class observatory in southern Finland measuring material and energy fluxes between the forest and the atmosphere. Both traditional graphs and artis-tic animations visualize the carbon uptake and release at the webpage that also includes interactivity.

In addition, CarbonTree was projected at the Lasipalatsi square in 2009 and now, similar projection constantly exists in Science Centre Pilke, Rovaniemi. For the summer 2012, we constructed an interactive projection that was first presented in Think Corner, which is an open exhibition of the research and teaching at the University of Helsinki. A projected CarbonTree will measure and react to the envi-ronmental factors near a visitor. The exhibition will be open during the summer 2012 in Helsinki city centre. In future, we will use CarbonTree in other expositions and in schools to give educative experiences and demonstrations. The begun collaboration between the art, science, and data processing will continue in the future with a variety of forms.


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Project Happy Days as cross institutional co-operation: New materials and new approaches Eerika KOSKINEN-KOIVISTOUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland

Research project Happy Days? Nostalgia and Everyday Life of the 1950s, set up in the Department of History and Ethnology of University of Jyväskylä, explores nostalgic representations of everyday life of the “extended 1950s”, introducing fruitful cross institutional co-operation between research institutes: universities and museums. Museum collections of the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, the Finnish Agricultural Museum Sarka, and the Finnish Forest Museum Lusto are used as source material for research, and the research results of the project will be exhibited in these museums.

In the 1950s, several macro-level developments took place in Finland, for exam-ple, in working life, domestic sphere, gender roles, immigration and consumer-ism, affecting directly the everyday life of Finnish people. This project is inter-ested in everyday life experiences and processes of remembering and present-ing people’s experiences of the modernizing Finland of the 1950s. The project introduces a new periodization, “the extended 1950s”, which challenges former periodizations which left the 1950s in the shadow of the dramatic 1940s and the radical 1960s. The new concept will help us understand the changes that took place in the Finnish Society of those decades, and deconstruct former popular images of the decade.

In this project, collaboration between researchers and museums started from the very early stage of research, allowing new research settings and use of materials, and encouraging a critical stance towards earlier research and representations of the past. The aim of this project is to critically explore the processes of represent-ing and remembering the 1950s, thereby benefiting the work of the museums.


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Presentation of Projects of the Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology Supported by the European Union Dana ŠUBOVÁSlovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

The European Union financially supported activities of the Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology in the following projects:

1. NATURA 2000 in lifelong education, for the resolving period 2009–2012 (June 30), with the financial amount of 318 908.73 €

The main activities of this project: • Preparing and realizing the educative cycles at primary and secondary

schools that were made with the aim of propagating the problems of the im-plementation of two European Union Directives – the Bird Directive and the Habitat Directive in our national legislative, on the basis of which there are in our territory, as well as territories of other states of the European Union, de-clared two types of protected areas, such as protected bird habitats and areas of European importance, that create the NATURA 2000 Network;

• preparing the exhibition devoted to the same problems as a complement for lectures and conferences about NATURA 2000;

• preparing and realizing the educative cycles for teachers of primary and sec-ondary schools from all over Slovakia – lectures completed with field excur-sions, laboratory exercises and environmental plays;

• publishing the editorial titles such as Atlas and DVD of Species of European Importance for NATURA 2000 Areas in Slovakia in cooperation with the Slovak Academy of Science of the Slovak Republic, Methodical Handbook NATURA 2000 for teachers, a cycle of atlases: Protected Trees of Slovakia, Protected Landscape Areas of Slovakia and National Parks of Slovakia as well as working lists for kindergartens and special schools and promotion material for seniors and the Romany community with the theme of NATURA 2000.

2. Obtaining the geographical coordinates of cave entrances and creating an archive of underground karst phenomena in the museum, for the resolving period 2009–2012, with the financial amount of 340 794.59 €

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The main activities of this project: • Obtaining the coordinates of cave entrances by GPS equipment, and contrib-

uting to creating the digital map and the catalogue of the main objects of Slovakia for the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive of the European Un-ion about main objects in the European Union countries;-creating a database of the caves in Slovakia;

• building an archive of documents closely connected with speleology and its history in Slovakia.

3. Digitalisation of the funds and technical support of informatization in the field of nature protection for the resolving period 2009–2013 (June 30), with the financial amount of 538 119.90 €

The main activities of this project: • Creating digital records of the lists of the state inventory of specially pro-

tected parts of nature and landscape in Slovakia and their joining to the state inventory database to be on-line data accessible by the public. Only selected data of the database has been made public up to now. At present, complete data is accessible in a list form in the museum archive;

• creating digital records of selected archive documents regarding history of nature protection and speleology, for example, establishing lists, association statutes, etc. and their on-line publishing to the public.

4. Reconstruction of the historical museum building, a cultural monument, for environmental education, for the resolving period 2009–2013, with the finan-cial amount of 9 592 478.26 €

The project consists of 2 parts: • Reconstruction of the museum building and its surroundings, building the

addition;

• realization of new expositions in reconstructed spaces.

It consists of the reconstruction of the old Jesuit Monastery from the end of the 18th century, building an addition and garages as well as reconstruction of the museum exterior. A speleological exposition will be situated in the basement of the four-story building. It has the following parts: karst landscape and karst types; geology and hydrology; sinter decoration; biospeleology; archaeology; from tales to scientific research; and history of speleology. The exposition of his-tory of the museum, the building and the town, as well as a polyfunctional room

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for conferences, lectures, laboratory exercises, plays, and an exhibition hall, will be placed on the ground floor.

An exposition about the earth will be situated on the first floor. It has the follow-ing parts: mineralogy and mining; botany; zoology; genetics; history of nature protection and NATURA 2000; palaeontology; and environment. On the second floor, the man and mountains exposition will be presented, with the parts de-voted to mountains; commercial activities of the man in mountains; free time activities of the man in mountains and their impact on environment; a rest zone; and an interactive room.

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Samuel Wass – a Hungarian ScientistSusan Ágnes BerényiElső Magyar Tűzzománc Jelvénygyár, Hungary

Samuel Wass was born 13. January 1814 in Kolozsvár and he died 20 March 1869 in Budapest. He worked as a judge. During the 1818-19 war of freedom he escaped from Hungary to abroad. He was persecuted in his homeland and therefore he rested in America. There he founded a successful raffinery for gold. He also became a freemason and after returning to his homeland he founded a lodge. Later on he became the member of Academy of Sciences in Hungary and founded some scientific associations and helped democracy and development of Hungary.


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PLENARY 3. EXPERIMENTING ANd LEARNING IN SCIENCE CENTERS

Chair: Kati Tyystjärvi, Finnish Science Center Heureka, Finland

Plenary 3Heureka Science Center11.00–11.30

Science Museums/Centres and Early Childhood Education: Some Possible Factors that Should Affect the Conceptual Dimension of Educational ProgrammesAnastasia FILIPPOUPOLITI University of Thrace, GreeceDimitris KOLIOPOULOSUniversity of Patras, Greece

Science museums/centres produce a wealth of educational material for young visitors. The design of that material varies according to type, content and creator; some for instance are composed by in-house museum professionals linking the programme directly to certain exhibits and implying that an exhibit can easily be transformed to educational material. Still others design programmes in collabora-tion with schools and other educational institutions, either because they would like to take into consideration the concerns raised by such institutions or because they seek theoretical/practical tools to support the design. University early child-hood departments provide essential support towards the design of meaningful educational programmes for science museums’ young visitors.

The paper discusses the factors that affect the design of educational programmes addressed to early childhood visitors of science museums/centres. It is argued that the design of such programmes could lead to preschool children’s cognitive progress on topics related to science education only if the design takes into con-sideration at least three factors:

(a) the particularities of the science museum/centre as regards the type of knowl-edge it is communicating via collections and exhibitions;

(b) the cognitive level and cognitive demands of preschoolers in relation to scien-tific knowledge, and

(c) the relation of early childhood curriculum and the knowledge generated by museum collections and exhibitions.

The paper argues why all three should be taken into consideration during the de-sign of educational programmes giving also examples of empirical research con-ducted in the context of the above-mentioned rationale.

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INdEXAAhola, Teemu 4, 5, 14, 26Antila, Kimmo 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 16, 42Artemenko, Roman V. 15, 39BBadenoch, Alexander 16, 42Bakayutova, Lyudmila 7Berényi, Susan Ágnes 17, 60Blank, Marianne 17, 50Bud, Robert 13, 20CCaudet, Amparo Sebastian 7dDemant, David 5, 7, 8, 17, 31, 49Díaz-Kommonen, Lily 16, 46Dogadaylo, Vadim 14, 35Donhauser, Peter 7Dzhedzhev, Ivaylo 17, 55EEdwards, Hazel 14, 29Ekosaari, Maija 2, 5FFaubert, Claude 8Filippoupoliti, Anastasia 18, 61Fulanovic, Davor 7, 14, 33GGnedovsky, Mikhail 5Gold, Margaret 42HHaapala, Pertti 5Haapoja, Terike 17, 55Haavisto, Susanna 5Hagmann, Johannes-Geert 14, 31Hakkarainen, Anja 5Hao, Yin 13, 21, 25Harjula, Salla 5Hiltunen, KooPee 12jJuurola, Eija 17, 55Juurola, Leenu 5kKallio, Kalle 14, 26Karttunen, Jenni 5Kettunen, Jari 15, 41Knerr, Fabian 17, 51Kolari, Pasi 17, 55Koliopoulos, Dimitris 18, 61Konstantinova, Anna Pavlovna 53Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika 17, 56 Kulmala, Liisa 17, 55Kultima, Annakaisa 16, 17, 47, 49Kyläniemi, Hanna 14, 34

LLahtinen, Jussi 5Lommers, Suzanne 42Lotysz, Slawomir 42MMarušič, Irena 7, 14, 17, 30, 54Mauranen, Katariina 13, 20, 24 Merczi, Miklós 38Meriluoto-Jaakkola, Marjo 2, 5, 13Merkusheva, Elvira 15, 36Mikkola, Marjo 5Mukhametov, Sergey 17, 54NNiinimäki, Matti 16, 48Nurminen, Maiju 5Nykänen, Panu 5, 15, 36Nylund, Niklas 16, 48PPaananen, Petri 12Penninkangas, Outi 5, 15, 16, 40, 45 Persson, Per-Edvin 5, 18, 21Peterdi, Vera 38Peurajärvi, Jari 2RRasinmäki, Jussi 17, 55Rostás, Péter 38SSalgado, Mariana 13Salomaa, Antti 12Schot, Johan W. 42Sedano, Carolina Islas 15, 40Sigelen, Alexander 14, 32Šubová, Dana 17, 57Sworst, Rafael 17, 52TTakatalo, Mirja 5Thorndahl, Jytte 5, 7, 13, 14, 24, 27Tikkanen, Sallamaria 16, 46Turré, Caroline 16, 44Tyystjärvi, Kati 5, 18, 61vValente, Maria Esther 8Vámos, Éva 7, 15, 38Vähätalo, Anne 14, 28WWyka, Ewa 15, 37YYanhao, Xu 7, 8ZZolotinkina, Larisa Igorevna 17, 53


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CONTACTS dURING THE CONFERENCETAVI Congress BureauAnja Hakkarainen mobile: +358 400 832 000 Email: [email protected]

The Local Organising CommitteeKimmo Antila mobile: +358 40 726 4590Maija Ekosaari mobile: +358 40 806 2764Email: [email protected]

Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing and Restaurant Amurin HelmiSatakunnan katu 49Tel. +358 (0)3 5656 6690 Tel. +358 (0)3 5656 6634 amurin.helmi[at]tampere.fi

Finnish Labour Museum WerstasVäinö Linnan aukio, Finlayson AreaTel. +358 (0)10 420 [email protected]

Tampere Art Museum MoominvalleyHämeenpuisto 20Tel. +358 (0)3 5656 [email protected]

Lenin MuseumHämeenpuisto 28Tel. +358 (0)3 276 [email protected]

Rupriikki Media MuseumVäinö Linnan aukio, Finlayson AreaTel. +358 (0)3 565 66411 [email protected]

Emil Aaltonen MuseumMariankatu 40Tel. +358 (0)3 212 4551 [email protected]

Museum Centre vapriikkiAlaverstaanraitti 5, Tampella AreaTel. +358(0)3 5656 6966 [email protected]

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Cumulus KoskikatuKoskikatu 533100 TampereTel:+358 (0)3 242 4111Fax:+358 (0)3 242 [email protected]

Hotel KauppiKalevan puistotie 2Tel. +358 (0)3 253 5353fax +358 (0)3 253 [email protected]

Sokos Hotel TammerSatakunnankatu 1333100 TampereTel. +358 (0)20 1234 632Fax +358 (0)3 5697 [email protected]

Dream HostelÅkerlundinkatu 2Tel + 358(0)45 236 [email protected]

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PUUVILLATEHTAANK.

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Finlayson Area

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TAMPERE

Central Square/ Keskustori

Särkänniemi

Näsinneula Tower

Brighter Perspectivesfor Science & Technology Museums

PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS

CIMUSET 2012

CIMUSET Conference in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland 28th–31st of August 2012

1. Väinö Linnan aukio2. Rupriikki Media Museum / TR1 Kunsthalle3. Finlayson church, Puuvillatehtaankatu 2 (Departure of the bus

for Mustalahti Harbour on Thursday 30 August)4. Mustalahti Harbour (Departure for the Lake Näsijärvi Cruise on

Thursday 30 August)5. Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing and

Restaurant Amurin Helmi, Satakunnankatu 496. Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley, Hämeenpuisto 207. Lenin Museum, Hämeenpuisto 288. Emil Aaltonen Museum, Mariankatu 40

Conference Hotels9. Cumulus Koskikatu

Koskikatu 510. Hotel Kauppi

Kalevan puistotie 211. Sokos Hotel Tammer

Satakunnankatu 1412. Dream Hostel

Åkerlundinkatu 2

cimuset programme abstracts

Documents

museum visits

museum of technology14

lenin museum

vapriikki auditorium

emil aaltonen museum

cimuset conference

conference hotels9

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