 BackReview and General Article ScienceAsia 1 (1975): 030-036 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1975.01.030
SCIENCE CENTRES
R.S. BHATHALSummary: Science educators and policy makers all over the world are either busy advocating the setting up of science centres or in the process of getting museum authorities to transform science museums into science centres. Changes. are already underway at the Science Museum in London, Deutsches Museum in Munich, Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Tekniska Museet in Stockholm, Narodni Technicke Muzeum in.Prague, Museo Nazionale della scienza de dell a Technica "Leonardo da Vinci" in Milan, Muzeum Techniki in Warsaw, Danmarks Tekniske Museum in Helsingor and the Palais de la D'ecouverte in Paris. Other science centres in Tokyo, Cairo, Singapore, Nagoya, and Seoul are adopting the view that not only is visitor-participation important but it is also necessary to show contemporary science exhibits. Physics Department. University of Singapore. Singapore.
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