The project "Development of an Experimental Field for Open Science and Public Engagement", sponsored by the Robert Bosch Foundation, aims to establish a management structure for the experimental field and to gather practical experience on participatory formats for the opening of science in the regular operation of the museum.
As a research museum, the Museum für Naturkunde is the ideal place to offer a broad exchange between researchers, collection staff and visitors. Objects from the collections and low-threshold dialogue formats can provide new insights into research and facilitate access to debates and research questions even for those who have had little contact with scientific discourses so far. With the experimental field, the museum has created a training field for the participatory opening of research and collection, in which new methods can be developed and tested, existing methods adapted and evaluated, and ideas further developed. The practical testing of new methods is also indispensable in view of the planned establishment of a Berlin School of Open Science and Public Engagement, which is dedicated to training young scientists to open up science.
In addition to setting up the management structures and coordinating the evaluation, the project also directly finances seven dialogue formats, which can be found on the format pages Research in dialogue and New Perspectives on Research and Collections. At the end of the project, we will publish a handbook for research institutions and museums as well as for employees from research, collections and other areas of museum operations.
To the main page of the experimental field.