science communication
2023.03.21
The Role of Research Museums in the Arnold Group
The Arnold Group explores how research museums can bring together perspectives from groups with different interests around cardiometabolic research and its applications. How can the spaces, objects and curatorial approaches of Medical Museion be mobilized to enrich interaction and understanding amongst various stakeholders?
Museums are trusted institutions for learning and cultural engagement. The Group's practice-led investigations use experimental event and workshop formats to develop Medical Museion’s capacity to bridge fundamental research into society-at-large. Focused on specific themes drawn from the research of Program 4 and the rest of CBMR, as well as from the work of other investigators across Copenhagen University, it convenes creative conversations and collaborative activities by exploiting the museum’s core attributes: its material culture, heritage spaces and curatorial practices. As well as enriching our understanding of how science can engage those beyond academic circles, this group also focuses on targeted impact with:
- Peers, through the compilation of an ‘engagement catalogue’
- An international network, through collaborations with other universities and cultural institutions undertaking similar experiments
- The public, by developing selected workshop topics into temporary public displays.
Museums like Medical Museion do have a significant (but specific) role to play in engaging publics and stakeholders.
There is increasing interest in the capabilities of museum experiments to foster unusual conversations and slower investigation.
There might be interesting feedback into the world of science and its ‘culture’.
