Research museum
A research museum is a museum that dedicates itself to its own research activities on an equal footing with its museum tasks. In some of these institutions, additional work on museology is carried out.
Research museums are particularly widespread in subjects whose fieldwork can provide exhibits, for example archeology , paleontology , biology and mineralogy .
Examples of research museums in Germany are the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, the German Mining Museum in Bochum and the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, which are organized in the Leibniz Association . Well-known research museums in other countries are the Hungarian Natural Science Museum and the British Museum .
The Leibniz Association includes eight museums explicitly designated as research museums.
See also
literature
- Reinhold Leinfelder : How can science be made attractive to the public? A procedure with all the senses using the example of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. , In: M. Knust & A. Hanft (editor), Further training in the ivory tower !? , Pages 115-121, Waxmann Verlag, Münster, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8309-2059-5 .