Physics as a cultural heritage

A travelling exhibition

Contact persons: Sonja Draxler and Max E. Lippitsch                                            

Objectives of the proposed project

The objectives and goals of the project are as follows:

  1. To encourage organisers of physics exhibitions to include historical, social, cultural and gender aspects in their planning.
  2. To increase public awareness of the importance of the physical sciences for our society.
  3. To show the interwovennes of scientific ideas with the historical, social, and cultural actualities in the times they were created, thereby deepening the public understanding of the process of scientific insight.
  4. To demonstrate how at all times scientific innovation was the prerequisite for improving the life conditions of the people.
  5. To cross-link cultural and scientific presentations to bring science from a purely intellectual to an emotional quality, thereby promoting people´s interest inengaging in the sciences.

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