Abstract
The purpose of this article is to examine the collections of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and their uses in the theatre, the museum and the library. The Royal Institution pioneered the technologies for communicating science to broader audiences, particularly in these three distinctive areas. In the theatre, if performed successfully, experiments and demonstrations could provide excitement and drama comparable to that of a theatrical play. The theatre was emerging as one of the central spaces in which to bring to life abstract notions of science. This article follows some of the main episodes in the making and performance of the Institution’s collections and brings to light a number of issues related to the history of exhibition media and the communication of sciences.
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