RT Journal Article
T1 The research museum – a place of integrated knowledge production
A1 Helmuth Trischler
YR 2024
VO 
IS Autumn 2024
K1 knowledge
K1 Museum
K1 Research in museums
AB Natural history museums have a longstanding history as sites of vital research based on their enormously rich collections, dating back to the late nineteenth century. Today they mostly position themselves as institutions of biodiversity research with their scientific programmes centre-stage and their public galleries as secondary activity. In contrast, museums of science and technology have long been struggling with their role in advancing the production and dissemination of knowledge based on object-oriented research. In his position as Head of Research at the Deutsches Museum, Germany’s leading museum of science and technology, from 1993 until his retirement in 2024, the author of this article has advocated for the inextricable integration of the fields of research, research infrastructure, and public mediation and communication. He has continuously sought to explore new avenues for realising the vision of the ‘integrated research museum’ that connects these three fields as closely as possible. In this article, he discusses the add-on value of integrating research into museums at various levels.  
NO For a discussion of the development of the Museum see, for example, Bennet, T, 1995, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (London: Routledge); te Heesen, A, 2012, Theorien des Museums. Zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius Verlag); and Simmons, J E, 2016, Museums: A History (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) – I’m very grateful to Johannes-Geert Hagmann for his most helpful comments.
NO See, for example, Rydell, R W (2006), ‘World Fairs and Museums’", in Macdonald, S (ed), A Companion to Museum Studies (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing); Geppert (2010); and Canadelli, E, Beretta, M and Ronzon, L (eds), 2019, Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press).
NO Leibniz Research Museums
NO For the following see the joint strategy paper ‘Agenda 2030‘ of the Leibniz research museums: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, 2021, ‘Agenda 2030: Strategiepapier der Leibniz-Forschungsmuseen zum Bund-Länder-Eckpunktepapier‘
NO Multiannual Action Plans
NO Artefacts Consortium
NO Publications following Artefacts conference themes are published free online and fully Open Access by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. See, for example, the latest volume (Artefacts 13) by Boon, T, Haines, E, Dubois, A and Staubermann K (eds), 2024, Understanding Use: Objects in Museums of Science and Technology (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press)
NO See Robin, L, Avango, D, Keogh, L, Möllers, N, Scherer, B and Trischler, H, 2014, ‘Three Galleries of the Anthropocene’, The Anthropocene Review 1 (3): 207–24; Keogh, L and Möllers, N, 2015, ‘Pushing Boundaries – Curating the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Museum’, in Cameron, F and Neilson, B (eds), Climate Change and Museum Futures (New York: Routledge), pp 78–89; Trischler, H, 2016a, ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands – A Research-based Exhibition’, in National Museum of Nature and Science (ed), Museums in the Anthropocene. Toward the History of Humankind within Biosphere & Technosphere (Tokyo: National Museum of Nature and Science), pp 67–77 and 270–5; Robin, L, Avango, D, Keogh, L, Möllers, N and Trischler, H, 2017, ‘Displaying the Anthropocene in and beyond museums’, in Newell, J, Robin, L and Wehner, K (eds), Curating the future. Museums, communities and climate change (London and New York: Routledge), pp 252–66; Möllers, N, Keogh, L and Trischler, H, 2019, ‘A New Machine in the Garden? Staging Technospheres in the Anthropocene’, in Duarte Rodrigues, A et al (eds), Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (London and New York: Routledge), pp 161–79
NO Foremost the catalogue: Möllers, N, Schwägerl, C and Trischler H (eds), 2016, Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands (München: Deutsches Museum) – an early article by the author on the Anthropocene (Trischler, H, 2016b, ‘The Anthropocene. A Challenge for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment’, N.T.M. 24: 309–335) has received by far the highest download record ever of the journal in which it was published.
NO OSIRIS
NO The FAIR principles of data management comprise: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability; the complementary CARE principles stand for: Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics.
NO DiSSCo
NO DiSSCo Europeana
NO ECCC
NO Towards a National Collection
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/242204
UL https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/the-research-museum-a-place-of-integrated-knowledge-production/
WT Science Museum Group Journal
OL 30