21-22 June 2023
Physics Instruments Museum
University of Pisa
Conference
The Scientific Museum, didactics and public: spaces for many voices
Although more slowly than in other countries, the Italian Science Museum has also been renewed. Next to the showcase exhibiting an ancient instrument, today the visitor finds multimedia installations and objects made of poor material intended to be touched and manipulated, illustrating a phenomenon with greater effectiveness and involvement.
The relationship between school and museum has changed, being now declined according to a new complementarity, evident in the case of scholastic disciplines (Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Geography) which often find in the Museum the laboratory which is missing or difficult to manage in the school.
Universities and research institutes exhibit their collections not only to communicate their history but also to orient, update and educate, according to the so-called “Third Mission” goals.
The Museum of Science is thus engaged in the preservation of the cultural heritage, in communicating the contemporary, and in the challenge of weakening those all too widespread prejudices that develop distrust of scientific subjects.
Without claiming to be exhaustive, the conference aims to stimulate discussion on these issues and the exchange of experiences among science museum operators. More over, the conference aims to give voice to the increasing attention reserved to this type of museology by discipline-specific didactics.
The conference program will include general talks about science museology and discussions about concrete cases from various fields of science.
Scientific Committee
- Chiara Bodei (University of Pisa)
- Valentina Domenici (University of Pisa)
- Giovanni Donadelli (University of Padua)
- Donatella Fantozzi (University of Pisa)
- Sergio Giudici (University di Pisa)
- Enrico Giusti (University of Florence)
- Daniel Mara (University of Sibiu – Romania)
- Marisa Michelini (University of Udine)
- Vincenzo Napolano (European Gravitational Observatory-EGO)
- Elena Pasquinelli (Fondation La main à la pâte – Paris, France)
- Samuele Straulino (University of Florence)
- Sofia Talas (University of Padua)
Organizer Commitee
- Massimo Bacci (Dept. of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge.
- Massimo Baldacci (S.M.A.)
- Raffaella Grassi (S.M.A.)
- Claudio Luperini (Dept. of Physics)
- Francesco Maio (Ludoteca Scientifica)
- Annamaria Mele ( Museum of Physics Instruments)
- Luca Palumbi (Museum of the Instruments of Physics)
- Giulia Pieraccini ( Science Playroom)
- Chiara Tarquini (S.M.A.)
- Antonio Viti (S.M.A.)
Program
21 June 2023 – Aula Magna Polo Fibonacci
9:00 Registration
9:30 Institutional Greetings
10:00 New Museology and Research in Education (moderated by Donatella Fantozzi UniPi)
- Paola Rodari (SISSA, Trieste) – Science Museums and Science Centres in the Dialogue between Science and Society
- Marisa Michelini (University of Udine) Integrating research and non-formal education
11:00 Coffee break - Rosanna Del Monte (University Federico II Museum Centre-Naples)
- Valentina Domenici (UniPi)
- Vincenzo Napolano (Ego-Virgo, Pisa)
12:30 Lunch
21 June 2023 – Conference Room – Museum of Physics Instruments
14:30 Museums, Science Centres and Exhibitions (moderated by Vincenzo Napolano EGO-VIRGO, Pisa) - Patrizia Cerruti (Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia L. da Vinci, Milan)
- Alessandra Drioli, (Città della Scienza, Naples)
- Gianluca Lopez (MUSE, Trento)
- Andrea Gori (Museo Galileo, Florence)
15:45 Experiences from University Museums (moderated by Sergio Giudici UniPi) - Fanny Marcon (SMA – Padua)
- Giovanni Donadelli (SMA – Padua)
- Eugenio Bertozzi (SMA – Bologna)
- Samuele Straulino (University of Florence)
17:00 Coffee break
Poster section by - Gianfranco Natale (SMA – Pisa)
- Ylenia Fattorusso (University of Salerno)
17:30 Mathematics and Astronomy (moderated by Samuele Straulino UniFi) - Simona Romaniello (Infini.to-Planetario Torino)
- Sabina Tessieri (Giardino di Archimede – Florence)
- Sergio Giudici (Museum of Physics Instruments, SMA-Pisa)
21:30 Cittadella Galileiana – Evening Event
The event is open to citizens - Astronomical Observations by the Department of Physics
- Poster Session Francesco Maio and Giulia Pieraccini (Science Library)
22 June 2023 Conference Hall – Museum of Physics Instruments
9:30 Critical thinking, interdisciplinarity and publics (moderated by Sergio Giudici UniPi) - Elena Pasquinelli (Fondation “La main à la pâte”- France)
- Lucio Fregonese (SMA – Pavia)
- Giulia Torta (SMA – Florence)
- Ruggero Stanga (Science and Technology Foundation & Planetarium – Florence)
11:00 Coffee break and visit to the Museum of Physics Instruments Collection by Claudio Luperini
11:30 History of Medicine (moderated by Antonio Fornaciari UniPi) - Juris Salaks (Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga – Latvia)
- Valentina Giuffra (Museum of Pathological Anatomy, SMA – Pisa)
- Alice Severi (State Institute of Higher Education, Follonica – GR)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Natural Sciences (moderated by Valentina Domenici UniPi) - Davide Bettini (Geothermal Energy Museum – Larderello, PI)
- M. Antonietta Carpentieri (University of Pisa)
- Ilaria Barachini (Istituto Comprensivo “Ilaria Alpi” – PI) and Paola Nicolosi (Museum of Natural History, University of Pisa)
- Pierpaolo Piombanti/Antonio Ulivieri (Natural Science Museum – Rosignano – LI)
Registration
Interested parties are invited to register for the conference and, if they are interested in submitting their own contribution, to provide the title and abstract by filling in the registration form by 15 June 2023.
Conference venus
Physics Instruments Museum
Pedestrian entrance
Largo Padre Renzo Spadoni
Vehicle entrance
Via dei Macelli 2/B
56126 Pisa
Aula Magna Polo Fibonacci
Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3
56127 Pisa
Where to stay
Below are some hotels that have an agreement with the University of Pisa. Please quote “Scientific Conference 21-22/06 UniPi” when booking
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