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)

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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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