München 2019 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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GP: Fachverband Geschichte der Physik

GP 2: The tools of physics between, research, teaching and public outreach

GP 2.3: Vortrag

Montag, 18. März 2019, 15:00–15:30, HS 9

On Props, Plores and Prototyping. Instrument(aliz)ing the Early Science Center — •Arne Schirrmacher — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

How can the physicist’s tools for knowledge production be transformed into popular demonstration exhibits that provide insights into physical phenomena? I will discuss this question in the context of the establishment of a new kind of science museum–the Science Center–which was established in North America in the 1960s with the strong participation of (research) physicists and which came to Europe in the 1980s, now in a very different (political) context. Instead of talking about instruments, experimental apparatuses or demonstrations, new terms such as props (Frank Oppenheimer) or plores (Richard Gregory) were promoted and the development process was turned into prototyping. In Germany, the exhibits of the first science centers became a Versuchsfeld (Hugo Kükelhaus) or Erfahrungsfeld (Lutz Fiesser). It turns out that in their second public life the instruments were not only greatly changed, but also their message was adapted and interpreted anew in the respective cultural sphere.