Science Communication at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Exhibitions, Dialogue and Participation
November 4th and November 21st
Get to know the science communication strategies of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, discuss new approaches to participatory, dialogue-oriented Science communication and find those formats most suitable for your own way of communicating and interacting. A program with plenty of possibilities for practical experience, observation and exchange.
The event fee is 50 Euro per participant and will take place on two separate days - November 4th and November 21st. The first day is for theory and background on science communication targeted at the general public. The second day is aimed at practicing communication at the museum with their visitors in the new experimental field of the museum. Maximum 20 participants.
November 4th 2019:
10:15 Welcome and getting to know each other
10:15 – 11:00 Guided Tour through exhibition galleries
- Introduction to Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Science Communication through the history of the Museum
- Science Communication in different galleries
- Dialogue-based communication
11:00 - 12:00 Presentation Experimental Field. Experiences with new formats of science communication and discussion
- Idea and Design of Experimental Field
- New Formats and evaluation of visitor experience
- Experience of communicators
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Introduction to Science Communication – Practical experience
- Target group
- Message
- Purpose and objectives
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 18:00 Participatory and dialogue-oriented
- What could that mean?
- The right questions to ask
- Mutual benefit and richness of perspectives
- Science as a transdisciplinary process
- Developing one’s own way for dialogue-oriented/participatory communication
November 21st 2019:
10:00 - 11:00 Preparation for science-communication experiment
11:00 - 13:00 Science-communication experiment 1
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Evaluation of first experience, Exchange
15:00 - 18:00 Science-communication experiment 2
18:00 - 19:30 Overall evaluation of experiment and feedback
Dr. Wiebke Rössig – Head of Experimental Field for Participation and Open Science, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Uwe Moldrzyk – Head of exhibitions, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Linda Gallé – Exhibition Curator, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Sonja Kreft – Creative Direction, Communication Design, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
