1960–1962. The international science film exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica “Leonardo da Vinci” in Milan: The engineer’s solution to the problem of bridging museum, science, and cinema

Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century

“…To date, explorations into these communicative tools focus heavily on the specific media in which they have circulated historically. For instance, research explores the significant role that the periodical press of the nineteenth century played in disseminating science information to non-expert publics (Cantor et al, 2004; Lightman, 2018; Shuttleworth and Cantor, 2004), while other scholarship in this area highlights exhibitions and museums as sites that—during roughly that same period—portrayed science in symbolically resonant and culturally accessible ways (Canadelli and Casonato, 2019; Roca-Rosell, 2015). Moreover, research on the more contemporary media of television and film illustrates how the circulation of scientific ideas in these formats has functioned in some cases to make science more generally palatable to lay audiences and, on the whole, to uphold traditional scientific ideals related to objectivity and gender norms (Boon, 2019; Cole, 2017).…”