Research and Curatorship in the National Science Museums: A Reflexion on Threats and Opportunities
Author(s)
Fox, Robert
Abstract
A new emphasis on communication and interpretation has accompanied recent changes in the priorities of national science museums, calling into question the traditional roles of historic collections of instruments and machinery, and of their curators. Here, an argument is made for a compromise that would rehabilitate the object and place object-based research at the center of the concerns of any museum with aspirations to national status.
