Modern museums

摘要

In the nineteenth century, science museums evolved from being aristocrats' private 'cabinets of curiosities' to public vehicles for the exposition of science. They continued to develop during the twentieth century alongside the logical positivist view of science, which holds that the experimental world is connected to the real world through a complex set of rules. Because of this direct correspondence, experiments could, in effect, uncover truth. So science museums presented the public with the validated artefacts of science, and public education systems fed their students received facts that could, in theory, be learned by rote memorization.