Le rôle des scientifiques dans les productions muséales

Abstract

The relationship between the scientific community and the professional community of science centres concern a whole of functions conditionning the communication value of these centers : legitimation of the way of publicisation of science, validation of the cultural products, and coherence and relevance of the dicurses held by the institution. Beyond the trans[ structuration] process of the scientific knowledge, there is the question, in term of reliability and veracity, of the confidence granted by the visitor to the contents of the exhibit devices with which it interacts. Particulary, from a citizen point of view of the construction of the opinions which underlie the democratic actions that he wants to implement