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45th Conference of CIMUSET International Committee for Museums & Collections of Science & Technology
CNRST- 5th- 8th December 2017
Rabat, Morocco
Musée Maroc Telecom
Académie du Royaume du Maroc
CNRST
Dear friends and colleagues,
Maroc Telecom Museum and the National Center for Scientific and Technical
Research (CNRST) has the great pleasure to welcome you to the 45th CIMUSET
annual meeting and conference in Rabat from 5th to 8th December 2017.
This year CIMUSET annual conference is held for the first time, and for our
greatest honour, in an African country: Morocco in Rabat City, a World Heritage
site since 2012 and capital of the Kingdom of Morocco.
CIMUSET 2017 Conference's debate around a topical theme witch concerns all
technical-scientific museums and science centres around the world:
“Technical heritage & Cultural Identity”, this topic will, no doubt, stimulate a
particular interest among CIMUSET 2017 participants, especially in the
delineation of the limits between the Technical/industrial Heritage as a tangible
legacy and Culture Identity as an intangible component.
I hope that CIMUSET 2017 conference will be a real forum dedicated to
exchanging different ideas about the relationship between technical heritage and
our different cultural identities. Discussions will give the opportunity to our
colleagues to shear with us their professional experiences and especially their
success stories in the promotion and interpretation of this technical heritage.
I also hope that this conference will be an intense moment of discovering and
enjoying the richness and diversity of the Moroccan cultural heritage.
Wishing all the best success to this event.
Yours sincerely,
Ech cherki DAHMALI
CIMUSET Chairperson
Director of Maroc Telecom Museum
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM CIMUSET PRESIDENT
Dear participants at CIMUSET 2017,
I would like to say, welcome you to Rabat, and in particular in the National
Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST).
We are delighted to cooperate with CIMUSET to successfully organize its 45th
conference here in Morocco and for the first time in Africa.
This cooperation is part of the objectives of our institution, which represents a
key pillar in the implementation of the national policy on scientific and technical
research, and is a manifestation of our unconditional support for programs
supporting scientific research and technical.
It should also be remembered that the CNRST has embarked on new challenges
to better serve the national scientific community and to meet the needs of our
country in major national structuring projects.
The CNRST is also responsible for coordinating other actions promoting scientific
and technical research and cooperation with other sectoral operators to support
research and cooperation projects between different sectors to better meet the
needs of the scientific community.
I wish you a pleasant stay in Rabat and a fruitful conference.
Pr. Mohammed KHALFAOUI
CNRST Director
CNRST
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM CNRST DIRECTOR
CONFERENCE THEME
“Technical heritage & Cultural Identity”
Industrialisation, infrastructure constructions and housing projects have destroyed many
historical sites and started transforming many landscapes and effectively delete significant
industrial and technical heritage. The majority of former industrial sites have been rebuilt as
commercial buildings or became residential areas with no association with previous functions
and times.
Hopefully, some sites have been preserved as open air museums trying to preserve and
represent the forgotten glory of industrial times through different conservation efforts and
exhibitions plans.
CIMUSET 2017 theme is composed by two significant expressions:
- Technical Heritage: it refers to the physical remains of the history of technology and
industry; old factories, mining sites, water-powered mills, warehouses as well as power and
transportation infrastructure.
- Cultural Identity: most common definitions of Cultural Identity presented it as a feeling of
being included to a group or culture.
According to this definition, we can have the following questions:
- Do we have any sympathetic felling towards technical and industrial heritage?
- How can technical heritage be a part of our cultural identity?
- Can we consider technical heritage equally important as the other cultural heritage
elements?
The conference theme can also refers to a factual situation of the “Colonial” Technical
Heritage in many countries. During military occupations, different industrial constructions
and infrastructures were built by “invaders” (Especially in the end of the 18th/ 19th Century
and between the 1st & 2nd World War). In some areas, independence was peaceful, and
orderly, in many others, independence was achieved only after a protracted revolution and
armed confrontation.
After this independence, should we consider this technical heritage a part of our cultural
identity? How can we change their connotation from a “Colonial” Heritage to a National
Heritage?
Ahmed HAMMOUCH
Head of the Department for Scientific and Technical Affairs, CNRST
Rachid AGADDOU
Head of Financial & Administrative Department, CNRST
Aziz BELLATI
Head of Mangement & Finance Division
Selma DINIA
Head of Relations with Enterprises Unit, CNRST
Rachid AYSSI
Computer Service, CNRST
Ech cherki DAHMALI
Director of Maroc Telecom Museum
Fadoua BENARAFA
Public Relation, Maroc Telecom Museum
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Abdelmalek AZIZI
Professor, Univ. Mohamed 1,
Oujda, Morocco
Juliette RAOUL DUVAL
Curator, Musée des Arts & Métier,
Paris, France
Jytte THORNDAHL,
Vice-Dircetor, Danish Museum of Energy,
Aarhus, Denmark
Ech cherki DAHMALI
Director, Maroc Telecom Museum,
Rabat, Morocco
Johanna VÄHÄPESOLA,
Head of Exhibitions and Learning, Museum of technology, Helsinki,
Finland
Natalija POLENEC
Director, Technical Museum of Slovenia,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bernard BLACHE
Former Director of Communication Dept., Palais des Découvertes, Paris,
France
Sonja ZIMONIC
Director, Museum of Science & Technology,
Belgrade, Serbia
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
KEYNOTES SPEAKERS
Abdelmalek AZIZI
Mathematics Professor, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda, Morocco
M. Abdelmalek AZIZI obtained a Ph.D. at Laval University (Canada) in April 1993 in Number
Theory. Since this date, he supervises the organization of the Doctorates studies in class field
Theory and it's applications in Cryptography at Mohammed Premier University at Oujda
Morocco. He has several publications published in international reviews (AMS Transactions,
AMS Proceeding, Acta Arithmetica, International journal of number theory, Journal of number
theory, Cryptologia...).
He was Lecturer or invited Professor in several countries (France, Canada, Japan, Italy, South
Africa, Kuwait, Germany, USA, Turkey, EAU, Saudi, Indonesia ...), Reviewer and Organizer of
several international conference and summer schools. He is member of several Societies (Hassan
II Academy of science and Technology( 2006-2014), American Mathematical Society (AMS),
European Mathematical Society (EMS), Moroccan Association of Cryptography (AMC), ,...).
Currently, he directs the Center for Doctoral Studies in Science and Technology at Mohammed 1st
University.
Jytte THORNDAHL
Curator responsible for Collection and Research at the Danish Museum of Energy
Mme Jytte THORNDAHL is the former President of CIMUSET (2010-2016). She is responsible
for Collection and Research at the National Museum of Energy in Denmark since 1987, and Vice-
director of this museum between 1988 and 2017,
She has a magister Artium of Social Anthropology, from the University of Aarhus in 1977, with
ggraduated studies from Cornell University, Ithaca New York, USA 1974-75.
She was a lecturer and teaching assistant at Social Anthroplogy Department of Aarhus
University and external examiner at the Saxo Institute (European and general Ethnology),
University of Copenhagen. Between 1985-1987 she was associated in curatorial activities at
Moesgaard Museumin Århus with the exhibition ‘The Dane and the noble Savage’.(Danskeren og
den ædle vilde).
In 2016, she was officially approved by Ministry of Culture in Denmark as “Researcher in
Cultural History”. Jytte THORNDAHL is an author of 11 books and more than 50 articles
about Social Anthropology and history of science & technology.
Sha was the head of the organising committee of the 36th CIMUSET conference in Denmark
(25th – 31st August 2008).
KEYNOTES SPEAKERS
Mohammed ABATTOUY
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Mohamed V University, Rabat.
M. Mohammed ABATTOUY began his career by investigating the history of science in the 17th
century and specialized in Galileo's manuscripts of physics for his PhD dissertation from Paris I
University (June 1989). Between 1992 and 1995, he worked in the ‘Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique’ in France (Paris and Nice) and at the ‘Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur’
(Nice) in history of mathematics and the genesis of modern science in the works of young
Galileo. He joined the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (1996-2003),
where he shifted his academic focus to the investigation of the history of Arabic classical
sciences. From March 2007 to May 2014, he was senior research fellow at the Foundation of
Science, Technology and Civilization (FSTC) in Manchester, UK, where he acted as chief editor
of the academic web portal Muslim Heritage.com and participated in major projects of the
Foundation, including the content preparation for ‘1001 Inventions,’ an educational touring
exhibition. Mohammed Abattouy is the author of several books and more than 70 articles of
history of science. He participated in numerous conferences on history of science in Morocco,
Middle East, Europe and USA, and organized several of them himself in Morocco and in
Germany. His book published in English in London in summer 2014 on Al-Isfizārī’s corpus of
mechanics was awarded two prestigious prizes: The King Abdullah International Award for
Translation (category “translation of science from Arabic to other languages”) and the Prize of
the best Moroccan book of social sciences in 2016, awarded by Mohamed V University in Rabat.
Currently he prepares for publication the corpus of the Arabic science of weights, with English
translation and commentary and works on several books on Galileo’s science, including a book-
length essay in French on Galileo’s manuscripts of physics, the first Arabic translation of
Galileo’s great book of mathematical physics (the famous Discorsi published in 1638), and
another book exploring the unique case represented by the ‘Galileo Affair’ as a case study of the
complex problem of the relationship between science and religion.
09h00 Opening ceremony & official speeches
Keynotes:
10h00 Abdelmalek AZIZI, Mathematics Professor, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda, Morocco
“Arabic Scientific and Technical Heritage”
10h20 Jytte THORNDAHL, Curator and vice-Director, Danish Museum of Energy, Denmark
“The green changeover of industrial society towards sustainability & energy saving ways of living”
10h40 Mohammed ABATTOUY, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Mohammed V
University, Rabat, Morocco: “Historical Clocks of Fes, vestiges of a forgotten Technical Heritage”
11h00: Coffee Break
11h45 Lüdtke HARTWIG, Director, Technoseum Mannheim, Germany
“The old steamship in Mannheim: a case study on how to manage exhibitions and events in order
to safeguard the technical heritage?”
12h00 Fumitaka WAKABAYASHI, Director of Science and Engineering Department, National
Museum of Nature and Science, Japan: “ Brief history of the National Museum of Nature and
Science in Japan and its role as a communicator of industrial and scientific heritage to the public”
12h15 Discussion
13h00 Lunch
14h00 ZHONG Kai, Software Engineer, Science and Technology Museum, China
“Cases about Taking Advantage of Modern Industrial Heritage and Science Museum Contributions
to Rekindle It in China”
14h15 AHO Mikko, Museum curator, Rauma maritime museum, University of Turku, Finland
“That ship was built by us”: constructing and presenting intangible and tangible industrial heritage”
13h30 WYKA Ewa, Curator, Jagiellonian University Museum, Poland
“Polish industrial heritage - its protection and interpretation”
13h 45 JOZEF Labuda, Slovak Mining Museum, Slovakia
“The Slovak Mining Museum in Banská Štiavnica and its technical monuments included on the
UNESCO World Heritage List”
14h15 Coffee Break
15h45 CIMUSET board meeting
15h45 STABRAWA-POWĘSKA Kinga, Adjunct in Art & Ethnography Department, Saltworks
Museum, Cracow Poland: “Creating a cultural identity through the heritage of technology – an
inseparable relationship on the example of Wieliczka”
16h00 REN Jie & FENG Xiaojing, Assistant researchers Science and Technology Museum, China
“The Advancement of Scientific Culture in Cultural Landscapes—A Study of the Pattern of
Relating Scientific and Industrial Heritage with Science and Technology museums in China”
16h15 Discussion
18h00: Welcome reception in Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco
(Address: Academie du Royaume du Maroc, Km 4, Avenue Mohammed VI – Rabat)
PROGRAM
Day 1: Tuesday 5 December 2017 (CNRST- Morocco Academy)
09h00 WILLIAMSON Derek, Director of Museum of Human Disease, Australia
“Learning in a medical science collection; what and how and the evidence?”
09h15 ENSEN Jacob Thorek, Museum curator, Danish Museum of Science & Technology,
Denmark: “Museums as People’s Places: Making exhibition-processes based on inclusiveness
and multivocality”
09h30 VITÉZY Dávid, General director, Hungarian Museum of Science Technology and
Transport, Hungary: “The role of heritage in museum-branding”
09h45 HOLOPAINEN Elina , Head of Collections, Finnish Railway Museum, Finland
“Saving Today for Tomorrow - Documenting Hyvinkää Railway Workshop”
10h00 Coffee Break
10h30 BURCHARDT Jørgen, Researcher, National Museum of Science & Technology, Denmark:
“There must be money in the bank: Contemporary documentation for museums of technology”
10h45 IRENA Marušič & ESTERA Cerar, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Slovenia
“Knowledge without frontiers”
11h00 Juliette RAOUL DUVAL & Isabelle PROUX, Centre National des Arts & Métiers, France
“The French Museum of Arts & Metiers, a major player of scientific and technical culture ”
11h15 GILANI Syed Aneel Ahmad, Associate Curator, National Museum of Natural History,
Pakistan: “Indigenous Ethno-Medicinal Plant Diversity a source of bridge between the Indigenous
culture and Technology in Cholistan Desert of Pakistan”
11h30 Discussion
12h00 Lunch
13h30 Visit of pottery workshops of Oulja, Salé
Day 2: Wednesday 6 December 2017 (CNRST- Oulja)
PROGRAM
Fes city, a World Heritage Site
07h30: Bus in front of Rabat-Ville Train Station
11h30: Visiting Fes Gungs Museum
13h00: Lunch
14h30: Visiting Old Leather Tanneries of Fes
16h00: Visit of old medina and a workshop of
Zellige and plaster hand craft
18h00: Departure to Rabat City Center
Day 3: Thursday 7 December 2017 (Excursion day- Fes City)
PROGRAM
09h00 DANKA Subova , Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology, Slovakia
“New Forms and New Themes in Popularization of Scientific Knowledge Following Environment”
09h15 KLUZA Maciej, Curator, Jagiellonian University Museum, Poland
“Traveling exhibitions as a method of promotion of the scientific heritage”
09h30 SHUO Jia, Engineer, Science and Technology Museum, China
“Study on the Protection and Utilization of Technical Heritage in the Construction and Renovation
of Dome Theater in Science Museum”
19h45 Discussion
10h00 Coffee Break
10h30 General Assembly
Free Afternoon
18h30: Visit of Maroc Telecom Museum, Maroc Telecom Tower (Address: Maroc Telecom, Avenue Annakhil, Hay Riad, Rabat)
CIMUSET Annual Diner
Day 4: Friday 8 December 2017 (CNRST- Maroc Telecom Museum)
PROGRAM
ABSTRACTS Day 1: Tuesday 5 December 2017
Keynotes:
AZIZI Abdelmalek, Mathematics Professor, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda, Morocco
“Arabic Scientific and Technical Heritage”
“ L’héritage scientifique et technique arabe ” (French) »
The birth of the Muslim Empire had been accompanied by an intellectual development in all ancient scientific fields as
well as in the new knowledge which had begun to be formed at that time.
For socio-economic needs encountered, among others, in certain problems of heritage, commerce, linguistics and
astronomy, the Arabs had approached several scientific questions in all fields and left us a golden scientific Heritage in
all the scientific and technical fields as in Mathematics, in Cryptography and communication systems, in medicine, in
physic and chemistry and in theirs technical applications (Clocks; astrolabes; water pumps, ...).
THORNDAHL Jytte, Curator and vice-Director, Danish Museum of Energy, Denmark
“ The green changeover of industrial society towards sustainability and energy saving ways of living”
Industrial societies are turning more green these years. There is a changeover in technology and ways of living.
Sustainability and green changeover are buzz words for present development not only in Denmark, but also
internationally. In 2014 the Danish Government launched a new strategy “A sustainable Denmark – development in
balance”. Climate change, global warming, carbon foot prints and CO2 outlet are words that children as well as adults
should know and learn through different medias. How can we as museums deal with these new challenges within
research, collecting, exhibitions and in guiding and teaching students. The green changeover is far reaching from
changes of technology providing energy from using fossil fuels into renewable energy as wind, water, biofuel, solar
energy and change of life style with eating more locally grown food, spending less energy for transportation etc.
It is very hard for the Danish citizens to understand all these changes and especially the green changeover. A survey
showed that every second woman did not know about it and only three out of ten men knew anything about this
change. But the majority found it very important to follow this path and 78 % wanted to have a sustainable and
energy-saving life. I will tell how we at the Danish Museum of Energy try to work with these problems in different
ways. The museum has developed a new strategy to cope with these problems – and try out new ways of informing the
visitors, as well as planning research about the green changeover – to see how citizens act daily in sorting garbage,
using public transportation, tens to save energy with new appliances, changing diets into more green and less meat,
growing and buying organic food..
ABATTOUY Mohammed, Professor of History & Philosophy of Science, Mohammed V University, Morocco
“ Historical Clocks of Fes, vestiges of a forgotten Technical Heritage”
“ Les horloges historiques de Fès : Vestiges d’un héritage technologique oublié” (French)
In Fez we have two hydraulic clocks dating from the 14th century. The first, which is a public clock, is next to the
Bū'ināniyya school. According to the historian Al-Jaznā'ī, it was inaugurated on May 6, 1357 by the Merinid Sultan
Abū al-Ḥasan. As no traces remain of the original mechanism, we have only few traces of the original clock.
The second clock is located in the upper room of the minaret of the mosque near Al-Qarawiyyīn University, founded in
860. It was updated on a regular basis. Originally constituted of a primitive clepsydra built in 1286-87, the final form
of this clock was built in 1317, then abandoned. It was restored in 1346-1348 and equipped with an astrolabe. The
remains of this final form are now housed in a narrow closet in the mosque building. On the west facade is an elegant
astrolabic dial, surrounded by 24 silvery hemispherical cavities, framed at the top and bottom by 12 openings, recalls
the astrolab built by Muhammad ibn Fattûh of Seville in Spain (early 13th century).
HARTWIG Lüdtke , Director, Technoseum Mannheim, Germany
The old steamship in Mannheim: a case study on how to manage exhibitions and events in order to
safeguard the technical heritage?
The nineteen years old steamship with paddle-wheels is part of the TECHNOSEUM-collection. The vessel was in use
on the river Rhein from the 1920th to the 1980th. Today she is resting at a pier still in the water. For the
TECHNOSEUM the challenge is to be responsible for longterm safeguarding of this technical heritage. Resources are
needed (both money and manpower) year after year to keep this boat in a good condition and to preserve it for the
future. To increase the public understanding of this task in order to get the money that is needed from the society and
the tax payers the TECHNOSEUM is organizing a variety of activities around the vessel: There is a permanent
exhibition about the history of the ship as well as a science-center installation with hands-on concerning many aspects
of water, water-use and environment. In addition there was opened a small restaurant and during the summer there
are evenings with live-music on board. Due to these activities and offers it was possible to keep the technical heritage
alive and probably it will be possible for the future.
WAKABAYASHI Fumitaka, Director of Science and Engineering Department, National
Museum of Nature and Science, Japan
Brief history of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan and its role as a communicator of
industrial and scientific heritage to the public.
National Museum of Nature and Science was founded in 1877, 140 years ago, as “Education Museum” at Ueno Park,
Tokyo, Japan where the first Japanese National Industrial Exhibition was held in the same year. It changed to
“Tokyo Science Museum” in 1931 because the importance of science and technology was recognized by Japanese
Government and Japanese people after the World War I. In that year, a new main building was built at another site
at Ueno Park. This building is now called “Japan Gallery” and was designated as Japanese National Important
Cultural Property in 2008. The Museum’s name changed to “National Science Museum” in 1949. In 2007, Its English
name has changed to the present name because it treats both the natural history and the history of science and
technology. It consists of Administration Department, Museum Activity Development Department, and five research
departments, i.e., Zoology, Botany, Geology and Paleontology, Anthropology, and Science and Engineering. A new
and huge exhibition building (now called as “Global Gallery”) was opened partly in 1999, and fully in 2004. In 2015, a
part of the permanent exhibition of the Global Gallery was renovated. We will speak about the brief history of our
museum, and about the permanent exhibition of science and technology, especially the corner of “Japanese
Scientists”. We will also discuss the role of the museum for the public understanding of industrial and scientific
heritage.
ZHONG Kai, Software Engineer, Science and Technology Museum, China
Cases about Taking Advantage of Modern Industrial Heritage and Science Museum Contributions to
Rekindle It in China
Industrial heritage inside and outside of museums are part of human history. They remind us the fading glory time
and can still inspire us if they are well operated.
This paper talks about Industrial Heritage protection and re-using in two directions, inside and outside the museums.
Museums are the bridge between the public and the industrial heritage. There’re many industrial collections that are
being stored and exhibited in museums, they contribute to help the public feel the history and culture directly.
There’re also advices given to the museums to improve continually in heritage storage and exhibit-marketing by this
paper. Heritage sites outside of museums is the origin, but how to protect and make good use of the sites is the
question. By studying the abended Shougang Group’s Steel Plants and its’ planned development, the paper conclude
some ideals to reuse this kind of heritage. Thus could also be a kind of protection.
Moreover, we are entering the era of 4th Industry Revolution, during the development of Industry 4.0, Iot, Cloud
Compute, AI, we have built up more and more industrial wonders sites, such as AliCloud’s Datacenter on Qiandao
Lake, Hangzhou, ZPMC’s full automation dock in Qingdao, they are the living specimen of technique advance.
Today’s wonders will be heritage in the future, the paper points out that we should not only focus on the heritage, but
also pay efforts on linking the living wonders and the public, this may be more easier than review the passed-by.
ABSTRACTS
AHO Mikko, Museum curator, Rauma maritime museum, University of Turku, Finland
“That ship was built by us”: constructing and presenting intangible and tangible industrial heritage
This paper explores intangible and tangible industrial heritage as a process within a community. Co-operation between
Rauma maritime museum and the local shipbuilders’ community has resulted in, among other things, a co-creative
exhibition and oral history interviews of 117 shipbuilders of Rauma shipyards. The interviews were conducted in 2009-
2017 and are archived in the museum’s collections. Many things that the shipbuilders in Rauma consider important
elements of their professional identity are intangible, for example the pride of craftsmanship, the good team spirit and
the spirit of innovation. How do the shipbuilders choose which concepts are to be part of their heritage? The
intangible is often communicated by something tangible: innovation may be represented by a modern thruster, a
company team sports jersey may signify a sense of camaraderie. How does the community attach intangible values to
tangible objects, and what is deemed worthy to represent the shipbuilders’ identity?
WYKA Ewa, Curator, Jagiellonian University Museum, Poland
Polish industrial heritage - its protection and interpretation
The Polish industrial heritage, from the chronological point of view, consists essentially of objects from two different
historical periods: from the years 1795-1918, it means the period of the partition of Poland between the three
neighboring states, and the period after independence in 1918. There are differences between the two groups of these
monuments - both on the level of applied technologies and on the overall concept of understanding of industry
infrastructures.
Despite significant differences, the objects of technology from both these historical periods, preserved to this day, have
become elements and evidences of technical culture in Poland. Adapted for modern industrial or cultural purposes,
today they play an important role in creation of cultural identity in local communities.
The purpose of my paper is to characterize the Polish industrial heritage, to show how it fits into national identity and
to show how it is protected.
JOZEF Labuda, Slovak Mining Museum, Slovakia
Slovak Mining Museum in Banská Štiavnica and its technical monuments included on the UNESCO World
Heritage List
The Slovak Mining Museum (SBM) protects and presents some of the most valuable technical monuments of Slovakia,
documenting the history of mining and the processing of precious and non-ferrous metals (gold, silver, lead, etc.).
These monuments can be seen in the exhibit entitled Mining in Slovakia, located in the former Chamber Court building
in the historical centre of Banská Štiavnica. Technical monuments are also displayed in an authentic environment at a
former mine outside the town – the area of the Ondrej Shaft and Bartolomej Tunnel. This is the SBM’s open-air
museum, having both surface and underground parts. Banská Štiavnica’s inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage
List was approved in Cartagena, Columbia, in 1993. The inscription applies not only to the 12th to 19th c. historical
buildings of the Town Monument Reserve, but also to the technical monuments of the town’s surroundings, including
the system of water reservoirs (tajchs), spoil tips, mine tunnels and shafts. In addition, historical miners’ houses and
buildings and sites connected with ore processing, smelting, and mining administration are included on the List.
In 2017, the SBM’s historical exhibits – the Bartolomej and Michal mining tunnels, and the Glanzenberg hereditary
adit – became part of the Underground Europe project, managed by UNESCO in Paris. Visitors to Banská Štiavnica
are extremely interested in seeing the SBM’s exhibits; in 2016, some 130,000 people saw our exhibitions. At the
moment, we are working on a project in the open-air mining museum where we are planning to add interactive
elements in the museum’s underground section. The purpose of the project is to allow visitors not only to learn about
miners’ lives, but also to have a direct experience with their “stories”.
ABSTRACTS
STABRAWA-POWĘSKA Kinga, Adjunct in Art & Ethnography Department, Saltworks Museum, Poland
Creating a cultural identity through the heritage of technology–an inseparable relationship on the example
of Wieliczka.
Cultural identity can be defined as a permanent identification of a specific group of people, manifested in beliefs,
opinions, habits and customs, as well as in an axiological system. On these bases, the functioning of people in specific
groups allows them to be distinguished as a community. The example of the centuries-old history of the salt mine in
Wieliczka shows how the cultural identity of people working in a saltworks company developed. The workplace
integrated, but also differentiated people working in it from the rest of society, and thus allowed to generate the
features that distinguished the group. The heritage of the Royal Salt Mines became an indispensable element that
connected the world of technique and culture. Dialogue between these seemingly unconnected spheres, allowed for the
creation of a community that stands out to this day. Both ethnographic observations and other developed scientific
materials available, among others, in the museum collection, point to the existence of a strong relationship between
the cultural identity of people associated with the salt mine, and their workplace, which has been a recognized
monument of technique for years. The example of Wieliczka allows for a thorough analysis of the relationship between
the heritage of technique and the cultural identity, as will be presented in my presentation.
REN Jie & FENG Xiaojing, Assistant researchers, Science and Technology Museum, China
The Advancement of Scientific Culture in Cultural Landscapes—A Study of the Pattern of Relating
Scientific and Industrial Heritage with Science and Technology museums in China
The scientific and industrial heritage of a country has high historical, scientific and cultural value as it reflects the
scientific-technical development of a society, bears witness to the brilliant scientific achievements of the industrial age,
and enriches scientific culture. Science and technology museums, whose main function is to advance scientific culture,
have moved from the initial collection and exhibition of scientific and industrial products to the production of exhibits
of all kinds based on their science-educational function, thereby communicating scientific knowledge and scientific
methods to the public. And it may be advantageous to even extend the range of objects considered worth to be looked
at from a museum's point of view.In contemporary China, which advocates green architecture and ecological city
construction, the scientific cultural value of the scientific and industrial heritage has become an attractive point for a
city, a point that has a unique charm. While the traditional way in which museums worked was to collect artifacts,
bringing them into a museum and presenting them to visitors, many parts of the scientific and technical heritage are
simply too large to move them into a museum or they may fit better in their original environment.
………………………. This paper analyzes the present forms and possible extensions of the ways in which scientific and industrial heritage
can be related with science and technology museums in China and the practical significance of this relationship in
terms of communicating scientific culture and popularizing science. To that end, a review of current examples of such
linkages of scientific-technical heritage and museums in China is compiled. Furthermore, examples from other
countries are analyzed and their relevance as models for China assessed. Based on that review, the paper develops new
ideas of how to sustain and expand the scientific cultural value of scientific and industrial heritage in China’s science
and technology museum development.
Day 2: Wednesday 6 December 2017
WILLIAMSON Derek, Director of Museum of Human Disease, Australia
Learning in a medical science collection; what and how and the evidence
Museum literature is well stocked with research on learning in museums. We understand there is a relationship
between learning and the predisposition of the visitor, between the visitor and the factors effecting the experience of a
Museum visit. There is evidence that the museum visit will impact the knowledge of the visitor. We also have evidence
that museum visitors value education as an intrinsic part of and in fact motivation for visiting a museum.
Much of this research has been done in science museums and centers with mandates to increase the valuing of science
and science careers by visitors. Along with zoos and aquaria these science collections and exhibitors are responsible for
a mass of the behavioral impact research into Museum visits.This talk analyses the recent literature on research into
Museum impacts on behavior intentions and behavior change. In light of the literature and recent research at the
Museum of Human Disease we suggest specific areas which would improve the breadth and depth of research to
elucidate ways science collection visits can create behavioral change in visitors.
ABSTRACTS
ENSEN Jacob Thorek, Museum curator, Danish Museum of Science & Technology, Denmark:
Museums as People’s Places: Making exhibition-processes based on inclusiveness and multivocality
The Danish Museum of Science & Technology is in a process of redefining its role and potential in the society. This
includes rethinking of exhibitions and activities, developing the educational role of the museum and establishing
learning partnerships with new stakeholders. This presentation focuses on how we can make relevant exhibitions for
citizens of today and the future. In October 2017, the Danish Museum of Science & Technology opened its biggest
exhibition project in the last 20 years. The exhibition ‘Smartphone-mania’ investigates what the modern smartphone
does to our way of life and how it effects how we communicate with each other. We use the museum collection to give
perspectives on how communication technologies previously have changed the way we communicate, but everything is
linked to present issues and human behavior.
The paper will address how we can develop museum practice in science museums, which are more inclusive in terms of
making museums democratic institutions, which are relevant for all people of the society. That means developing
exhibitions based on contemporary issues and humans and seeing the exhibition as a process instead of as a product.
That’s a dynamic transformative exhibition raising questions instead of giving answers and making room for dialogue
and discussions.
HOLOPAINEN Elina , Head of Collections, Finnish Railway Museum, Finland
Saving Today for Tomorrow - Documenting Hyvinkää Railway Workshop
In the age of 155 years, Finland’s State Railways Company VR is facing many changes. Long lasting monopoly is
going to end when the rail traffic will be opened to competition. The changes became visible when VR decided to shut
down its central workshop by the end of 2018. VR Hyvinkää workshop was built soon after the WWII and opened in
1949. For decades it has had a nationally important role in the maintenance of railway rolling stock. As a one of the
biggest employers in the area, it also has had a certain importance for local and professional communities. Hyvinkää
workshop has become a cultural identifier for these groups.
Finnish Railway Museum, in collaboration with VR, decided to document the technical and cultural heritage and
know-how of Hyvinkää workshop before closing. The chosen method was contemporary documentation. Main purpose
was to document the intangible heritage and save a piece of today for further generations by digital photography,
filming and interviews.
There are many benefits in collecting the contemporary compared to collecting the past. There are plenty of material,
information and informants available. Most importantly, we have a possibility to collect diverse views and opinions in
society as well as people’s experiences - aspects that often are lost forever when collecting historical material. We also
have a possibility to involve communities to preserve their own history. Through the documentation projects we can
foster and make visible the cultural identities of communities.
VITÉZY Dávid, General Director, Hungarian Museum of Science Technology and Transport, Hungary
The role of heritage in museum-branding
The Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport ̶ currently undergoing a process of significant
revival ̶ is one of Europe’s first transport museums. At the core of our current project appears the complete re-
foundation of the museum – carried out at two locations. The original museum building, which has been welcoming its
guests since 1899 in the City Park, Budapest, will be reborn as a primary exhibition place of Hungary’s technical
heritage, and will host an interactive exhibition presenting the history of Hungarian innovation. Furthermore, the
new major exhibition space of the Museum of Transport will present the history of Hungarian transportation,
engaging tourists and visitors of all age groups by employing state-of-the-art methods and technology.
Today a transport – or science – museum's role is not limited to statically cataloging the history of a nation's heritage.
Besides, acting as a modern knowledge center, it must simultaneously strive to synthesize the successes, failures, and
perspicacity of the past into a common platform to shape the future. The management of the new museum aims to
reform the organizational structure while also wishing to reorient the function of the museum, to rethink its offered
services, partnerships, audience, and stakeholder management. Our mission is to represent innovation, sustainability,
and belief in the future, together with a will to act upon it. In the new buildings of the Hungarian Museum of Science,
Technology and Transport we will interlace public space with an experience-based platform reflecting on past, present,
and progress of transportation and innovation.
ABSTRACTS
BURCHARDT Jørgen, Researcher, National Museum of Science & Technology, Denmark
There must be money in the bank: Contemporary documentation for museums of technology
The collections and research at museums have been challenged in recent years. The museums are generally pressed by:
• General economic cuts to cultural heritage areas
• Competition from new media
At the present time, these museums are overusing their collections while, at the same time, not collecting nearly as
much as they did just 20 years ago. Put simply, we are withdrawing more from the bank than is being deposited.The
strategic situation for collecting items has changed greatly:
*Technological development now takes place at an unprecedented rate.
*The number of technologies is increasing exponentially.
*Technology is increasingly complex and created in the context of international collaborations.
*The technique can function only as part of something else.
Challenges with the stuffed stores can be partially solved by time-consuming cuts, but our technology does not
approach the same conditions as machines from the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.We can no longer wait to
collect before objects have become "history." Many production facilities do not last more than 15 to 20 years before
they are discarded. Anonymous international owners have no reverence and, hence, no interest in securing a place in
history for their businesses. Therefore, a new collection policy must be established:
*The focus has to be on the present.
*The documentation of objects and their uses (photos, video recordings, interviews) must be emphasized.
*The act of collecting must take place internationally, with a focus on coordinated cooperation and the allocation of
responsibility.
IRENA Marušič & ESTERA Cerar, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Slovenia
Knowledge without frontiers
Museums must move beyond education and entertainment to embrace socially relevant missions. Being a socially
responsible museum means addressing issues of relevance to one's community, as well as identifying issues and
challenges where a museum's expertise can make a positive difference.
In seeking to achieve this, The Technical Museum of Slovenia is preparing a project titled KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT
FRONTIERS, which will highlight the positive impact of migration on society and show a strong link between
technical/science heritage and cultural/national identity. We will present successful individuals across different fields of
science and technology who migrated to or from Slovenia from the 17th Century to the present day…
Scientists and inventors have been moving to and from other countries to improve their living conditions and working
opportunities - or just to save their own lives. But history is a witness that one can still become a stranger even
without moving to a foreign land. State borders can change, and in our own Slovene territory this has happened many
times in the last century alone. A perfect illustration is the period from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the more
recent Yugoslavia to the present day European Union.
With different accompanying programs we will offer our visitors the opportunity for social dialogue and to express
their own points of view.
Juliette RAOUL DUVAL & Isabelle PROUX, Centre National des Arts & Métiers, France
The French Museum of Arts & Metiers, a major player of scientific and technical culture
Le Musée des arts et métiers peut être considéré comme l'un des plus anciens musées techniques et industriels au
monde. Son histoire est intimement liée à celle du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam), dont il est l'une
des composantes. Depuis 1794, les collections se sont enrichies de nombreux apports, précieux témoins de l'évolution
des savoirs scientifiques et du progrès technique. Le musée conserve aujourd'hui une exceptionnelle collection,
remarquable tant par son ampleur (près de 80 000 objets et 15 000 dessins) que par la diversité des thématiques
couvertes. Rouvert en 2000 après un vaste chantier de rénovation, le Musée des arts et métiers conserve aujourd'hui
une collection de référence. Il propose une importante programmation culturelle, à destination d'un vaste public, en
particulier à travers ses activités pédagogiques, ses conférences et ses expositions temporaires, et dispose d'importantes
ressources documentaires dans les domaines de l'histoire des techniques et du patrimoine industriel. Il anime le réseau
des musées techniques (RéMut), abrite la mission nationale de sauvegarde du patrimoine scientifique et technique
contemporain (Patstec) et participe à plusieurs programmes de recherches.
ABSTRACTS
GILANI Syed Aneel Ahmad, Associate Curator, National Museum of Natural History, Pakistan
Indigenous Ethno-Medicinal Plant Diversity a source of bridge between the Indigenous culture and
Technology in Cholistan Desert of Pakistan.
The indigenous medicinal plant diversity is very rich in the Cholistan desert in the southern Pakistan. It occupies a
total area of 26,000 km2. There are many indigenous tree, shrubs, and herbs plant species that are being used as
indigenous medicinal plants for the treatment of various ailments and indigenous technology through the indigenous
knowledge. During the research work more than 50 plant species were reported out of which 19 were selected as the
most important indigenous medicinal plants belonging to 14 families. The most of the people were using the indigenous
medicinal plants for the treatment of different ailments mainly the stomach disorders i.e. up to 35-40 % of the total
used for the other ailments. The other ailments treated by indigenous medicinal plants include fever, cough, cold,
asthma and skin disorders. The important plants commonly used included Capparis decidua, Neuroda procumbens,
Calligonum polygonoides, Moringa olifera, Solanum nigrum, Leptadenia pyrotechnica and Withania somnifera. In
addition the people use the different types of simple traps made of ropes, wires etc that is used to catch the wild falcon
/ saker species in the desert. This trap is an example of the technological advancement in the indigenous people used
for the hunting of the birds.
Day 4: Friday 8 December 2017
KLUZA Maciej, Curator, Jagiellonian University Museum, Poland
Traveling exhibitions as a method of promotion of the scientific heritage.
Jagiellonian University Museum for more than 10 years have been lending or organizing travelling exhibitions in
many Polish museums, universities and other types of cultural institutions. Till now more than 100 such exhibitions
which attracted more than 350 000 visitors have been organized, Exhibitions organized outside may be divided into
three types:
1) Interactive exhibition focused on promotion of science. These exhibitions served for several years in our museum
and were transformed into a small mobile science center.
2) Exhibitions on the history of science based on the museum’s temporarily exhibitions.
3) Exhibitions based on the collection of historical scientific instruments organized outside of the university.
Advantages and disadvantages of such types of exhibition will be discussed as well as it role on the popularization of
science and scientific University Heritage.
DANKA Subova , Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology, Slovakia
New Forms and New Themes in Popularization of Scientific Knowledge Following Environment
Popularization of science has an increasing importance in the present. A science language of individual branches is a
specific one, and knowledge in them reached such level that a scientific text is not understandable for people without
relevant education. Nevertheless, scientific knowledge influences our everyday life not only through technical gains
but also more and more through a level of knowledge related to environment thus our health and also health of future
generations. It is needed to inform about these themes a broad public as well as students even before they will be
specialized in other disciplines as they are biology, ecology and genetics, and knowledge related to environment escapes
them from the horizon. In the Museum, for this purpose we created 2 animated films focused on a broad public, and in
the audible and extended version focused on schools as well. They are devoted to photosynthesis as one of the most
important and the most particular processes in the nature, and selected chapters from genetics that influence our life
and its basic processes.
SHUO Jia, Engineer, Science and Technology Museum, China
Study on the Protection and Utilization of Technical Heritage in the Construction and Renovation of Dome
Theatre in Science Museum
Dome theater as a landmark of the Science Museum, the issue about how to creatively utilize local technical heritage
resources during the construction and renovation of dome theater need to carefully think and plan. Old theater
equipment carrying the value of technical heritage and historical significance. Good research and utilization could
enhance the experience of the visitors identify the concept of exhibition and triggering the resonance of values. This
paper analyzes the problems that should be paid attention to in the construction and renovation of the museum
theater from the perspective of the protection and utilization of the technical heritage in the case of the renovation
and utilization of the world famous museums such as Galileum Solingen, Germany and Houston Museum of Natural
Science, USA etc.. In addition this paper will put forward the principles and recommendations for the protection and
utilization of technical heritage in theater construction and renovation,
ABSTRACTS
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)
Address: Angle Av. Allal Fassi,- Av. des FAR, Irfane, Rabat, Morocco
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Maroc Telecom museum is the first technical museum in Morocco; it’s an institutional museum of
Maroc Telecom Group.
The Museum is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International
Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (CIMUSET), the
International Council of African Museums, Regional Arab Alliance of ICOM (Arab-ICOM),
It offers a trip back in time for more than 200 years, with working old telephone exchange
systems: Manual switchboard, Rotary and Crossbar electromechanical switches as well as an
authentic and rare telegraphs and telephones collection.
The museum was built with a view to telling the human communication adventure, looking
towards the past, present and future. Our museum is an interactive space, it offers an amazing
and fun journey through the communication history in Morocco and worldwide.
Address: Maroc Telecom Museum, Avenue Annakhil, Hay Ryad 10100, Rabat, Morocco.
Tel.: +212 (0) 537 71 90 14/ fax: +212 537 71 71 71
Take a virtual tour of the museum and plan to come and visit us in person in our web site:
www.museemaroctelecom.ma
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Opening hours : From Tuesday to Saturday: 09h - 17h/ Closed: Sunday, Monday & Holidays
Free admission
Accessibility Our museum provides wheelchairs for disabled visitors, toilets with
supporting bars, elevators, and proper spaces for wheelchair movements.
We also offer video guides for deaf-dumb persons and audio guide for
visually impaired individuals in different languages with sensitive touch
of collection pieces
The CNRST was created in 1975 to serve as a government instance that promotes research
activities in Morocco. In this context, CNRST is mainly in charge of:
- Organizing, coordinating and sponsoring national scientific and technical research programs in
Morocco;
- Providing a highly effective system for the Moroccan scientific and industrial communities to
access information and thus contribute to the enhancement of the country’s economic fabric
(online databases and services (portals) development, Technological watch, access to electronic
resources etc.) through its Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (IMIST);
- Bringing together universities and the world of business and encouraging the creation of
innovative start-ups through its unit the Morocco Incubation and Spin-off Network (RMIE);
- Contributing to the effort of involving Moroccan researchers residing abroad in national
scientific research;
- Carrying out high value analyses services for the benefit of research operators and
Enterprises through its Technological and Scientific Research Support Unities (UTARS);
-Establishing conventions and associative contracts with public or private research
organizations and signing agreements with foreign organizations pursuing the same objectives.
Address Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) ,
Avenue Allal Fassi, Irfane, Rabat, MOROCCO
Tel: +212 537 56 98 00
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