Connecting Museums: a case study in leadership, innovation and education in university science museums leading internationalisation projects

• Autor(a) principal: Ferraro, José Luís Schifino
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Goldwater, Adam, McDonald, Caroline, Guerra Simões Pires, Melissa, Stott, Janet, Suess, Jessica A., Smith, M. Paul
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Educação
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/faced/article/view/29526
• topic: Science. Museums. Leadership. Innovation. Science education. Internationalisation.; Museos de ciencias. Liderazgo. Innovación. Educación en ciencias.; Internacionalización.; Science. Museums. Leadership. Innovation. Science education. Internationalisation.

This article reports on Connecting Museums: leadership, innovation and education in Science Museums, an international conference involving three university museums: Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (MCT-PUCRS), the Great North Museum: Hancock (GNM), at Newcastle University (NU), and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH). The partnership started with a project to develop a joint exhibition on the theme of evolution organised by MCT-PUCRS and GNM, supported by the British Council’s Newton Fund (Institutional Skills 2016). The two museums shared the project at the UK University Museums Group (UMG) conference in 2016, where it came to the attention of colleagues at OUMNH. Following the UMG conference, the leadership and education teams of the three museums opened a dialogue to exchange knowledge and experience on leadership, innovation and education in science museums. This culminated in the first Connecting Museums conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil in October 2017. The conference was attended by 81 professionals, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students with interests in museology, the natural sciences and related areas.