Parallax Error? A Participant’s Account of the Science Museum, c.1980–c.2000

Abstract

It is generally a mistake, especially for a historian, to assume that the change personally lived through is somehow more dramatic than that of any other era. All the same, the last thirty years have been marked by significant transformations in the Science Museum’s governance, its public face, its staff structure, and in fact all the different components that the other contributions to this volume have discussed. A single chapter cannot cover the whole range of this era of the Museum’s history, and, whilst acknowledging the wider scene, do more than note that these changes occurred in a period of significant change for all national museums. Instead, this chapter will consider developments in the Science Museum’s continuing dialectic between history and science communication — or, to put it differently, collections and interactivity — which was particularly antithetical in this period. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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