Making effective use of public spaces, e.g. museums
Tim McNamara
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New Zealand has many excellent public assets such as museums, observatories and aquariums that could be points of interest for connecting society more closely to science.
How should we make the most of them?
Kimberley Collins Wed 14 May 2014 10:16PM
Te Papa is doing good things with their Science Live series and recently commissioned The KinShip to put on a show called The Seven Mysteries of the Sea. Cool idea, and was very fun, but I personally thought it pandered to a particular audience.
Tim McNamara Thu 15 May 2014 2:11AM
@kimberleycollins - can you expand your concerns? Interested in hearing more about the "particular audience"
Stuart Yeates Thu 15 May 2014 8:15PM
On the topic of cool things in museums, there is currently an open call for papers for NDF http://www.ndf.org.nz/programme/ It's a great place to connect with lots of little local institutions. I was on parental leave last year, but I've been the couple of years before that.
Kimberley Collins Sun 25 May 2014 5:32AM
The people doing it explained that Te Papa was trying to attract more of a "hipster" crowd and so it was very quirky. Good, though!
Tim McNamara · Thu 8 May 2014 4:12AM
This was one of the biggest ideas that I took away from the recent SCANZ conference in Palmerston North.