Apr
24
“The show’s entertainment factor appeared to be used to apologize for science and turn it into something more ‘palatable’. I felt it insulted my intelligence and my genuine interest in learning something about science. Does making science fun really require turning scientists into clowns? I can’t imagine seeing a show like this in any other cultural context. There’s no history museum doing a send-up of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There’s no art museum where Picasso is portrayed as a boozy goofball on the make. Entertainment and comedy can be fabulous presentation devices, but I don’t think we need them to mask the fact that science is serious, complicated, often funny business.”
Museum 2.0: A Frustrated Reaction to a Science Center Demonstration
