Scientific Museum Design

This course unit includes 4 hours of tutorials during which students explore the basic concepts that define scientific museums (statutes, typology, missions, audience, and the functions of collection, conservation, exhibition, education, and research), as well as the related professions.
These classes are followed by 11 hours of fieldwork, during which students take guided tours of scientific collections and museums (botanical gardens, herbariums, zoos, aquariums, natural history museums, etc.), with a focus on exhibition design, visitor pathways, and educational outreach programs.

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the field of scientific museography and to equip them with the skills needed to interact with professionals in this field as ecologists or ecology educators. By the end of this course unit, students should be familiar with:
1. the roles of various museum professionals
2. the basic concepts that define museum institutions: collection, cataloging, conservation, exhibitions, audiences, visitor pathways, etc.
3. the tools of science communication and the rules for writing museum texts.

Knowledge Assessment: 100% CC