TY  -  JOUR
TI  -  The research museum – a place of integrated knowledge production
  AU -Helmuth Trischler
PY  -  2024
VL  - Tenth Birthday Issue
IS  - Autumn 2024
KW - knowledge
KW - Museum
KW - 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.  

N1 - 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.
N1 - 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).
N1 - Leibniz Research Museums
N1 - 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‘
N1 - Multiannual Action Plans
N1 - Artefacts Consortium
N1 - 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)
N1 - 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
N1 - 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.
N1 - OSIRIS
N1 - 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.
N1 - DiSSCo
N1 - DiSSCo Europeana
N1 - ECCC
N1 - Towards a National Collection
PB - The Science Museum Group
 
SN -  2054-5770
LA -  eng
DO -  10.15180/242204
UR -  https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/the-research-museum-a-place-of-integrated-knowledge-production/
T2 -  Science Museum Group Journal