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  • Acoustics on display: collecting and curating sound at the Science Museum
    Date: 03/29/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article traces sound as it echoes through approaches to displaying the Science Museum’s acoustics collection over the course of the twentieth century. Focusing on three key moments in the collection’s historical development, the article explores the role of sound as both medium and object of museum display. Each moment exposes how the ... »
  • Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing
    Date: 03/07/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    In January 1885, the Glaswegian Professor of Chemistry Dr Robert Carter Moffat organised a special operatic concert at St James’s Hall, London, to which he invited around two thousand scientists and musicians. The point of this invitation concert was that all the singers used bottled air. Moffat himself appeared between the various performances, ... »
  • The Hugh Davies Collection: live electronic music and self-built electro-acoustic musical instruments, 1967–1975
    Date: 03/01/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    The Hugh Davies Collection (HDC) at the Science Museum in London comprises 42 items of electronic sound apparatus owned by English experimental musician Hugh Davies (1943–2005), including self-built electro-acoustic musical instruments and modified sound production and manipulation hardware. An early proponent of ‘live electronic music’ (performed ... »
  • Appendix - Art+Science: Broadening Youth Participation in STEM Learning
    Date: 05/16/2016
    Resource Category: Literature Review
    This document contains the appendices and literature review from the report "Art+Science: Broadening Youth Participation in STEM Learning." It includes assessment tools used during the project. ... »
  • Experimenting With Storytelling
    Date: 04/15/2015
    Resource Category: Blog Post
    The project, called Experimenting With Storytelling, involved working with four schools in East London and Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Each after school session, with elementary school children and their parents, consisted of a cultural story or folktale (the ‘storytelling’ part) which had some science in it followed by an associated ... »
  • Bruno Latour - Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers in society
    Date: 07/01/2013
    Resource Category: Research Products
    Using a kind of dynamic film, Latour analyzes three recent moments in the history of science and technology, involving John Whittaker of the Pasteur Institute, Watson and Crick and Tom West of Data General. Text in Portuguese. ... »
  • Video-based Field Studies in Museums and Galleries
    Date: 09/01/2002
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    In this essay, researchers from King's College London, Work, Interaction and Technology Research Group, discuss a particular approach to the analysis of social interaction in museums and galleries, focusing on video-based field studies. The authors also give a few suggestions as to why it might be important to take verbal and physical interactions ... »