Kan opgaveark bygge bro mellem museum og skole?

Skoleelever er en vigtig del af museers målgruppe, men der er en kløft mellem skolelæreresom har behov for et dokumenterbart læringsudbytte for deres elever, og museer for hvem den frieopdagelse og udforskning er kerneværdier. Kan opgaveark bygge bro over denne kløft? Her undersøgestre udvalgte problemstillinger i forbindelse med design af opgaveark ved hjælp af en analyse afet eksisterende opgaveark og en efterfølgende observation af brugen af det pågældende ark. Resultaterne,som er et uddrag af en større undersøgelse, viser at omhyggeligt designede opgaveark kanimødekomme både skolelæreres behov og museers identiteter. Projektet er beskrevet i sin helhed iMortensen & Smart (2007)

Museographic Transposition: The Development of a Museum Exhibit on Animal Adaptations to Darkness

Science museums define the objectives of their exhibitions in terms of visitor learning outcomes, yet exhibition engineering staff lack theoretical and empirical research findings on which to base the creation of these educational environments. Here, a first step towards providing such research is reported. Museographic transposition was used as an analytical framework to investigate the development of an existing museum exhibit on animal adaptations to darkness. The analysis yielded a descriptive model of exhibition engineering as a three-stage process in which simultaneous processes of epistemological development and museum-pedagogical development result in the curatorial brief which forms the basis of the subsequent museographic development of the physical exhibit. Examples are discussed which illustrate the use of the model in identifying exhibition inconsistencies, but also in generating new ideas for exhibition engineering. The potential for further developing the model is discusse