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CIMUSET 2017-Publication.Pdf 45th Conference of CIMUSET International Committee for Museums & Collections of Science & Technology CNRST - 5th- 8th December 2017 Rabat, Morocco DAHMALI cherki Ech 45th Conference of CIMUSET International Committee for Museums & Collections of Science & Technology 5th- 8th December 2017- Rabat, Morocco ICOM- CIMUSET Publication Policy: ICOM-CIMUSET seeks to make all contributions to the conference widely available. Contributors who accept to publish their presentations during CIMUSET conferences, they automatically assign non- exclusive publication rights to ICOM-CIMUSET so as to publish and use the contents. However, because it is non-exclusive, it does not prevent authors from continuing to use and publish their own papers. We also reserve the right to make editorial changes and to request revisions where necessary. ICOM- CIMUSET: International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology ICOM, Maison de l'UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 34 05 00/ Fax: +33 (0) 1 43 06 78 62 http://network.icom.museum/cimuset Notice: The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of ICOM-CIMUSET . Images & illustrations: © authors Conception & book cover: Ech cherki DAHMALI ISBN: 978-92-9012-443-6 Copyright © 2018 ICOM-CIMUSET 45th Conference, Rabat, Morocco 5-8 december 2017 Table of contents Welcome to Africa……………………………………………………………………………..……………… 5 The conference theme………………………………………………………………………………………… 7 Abdelmalek Azizi , Mohammed 1st University, Oujda, Morocco……………………………………………….......... 9 Arabic Scientific and Technical Heritage Jytte Thorndahl, The Danish Museum of Energy, Denmark……………………………………………………...…… 19 The green changeover of industrial society towards sustainability and energy saving ways of living Hartwig Lüdtke , Technoseum Mannheim, Germany…………………………….………………………………..……. 25 The old steamship in Mannheim: a case study on how to manage exhibitions and events in order to safeguard the technical heritage? Wakabayashi Fumitaka, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan……………………………..........……. 27 Brief history of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan and its role as a communicator of industrial and scientific heritage to the public Zhong Kai, China Science and Technology Museum, China…………………..………………….………………..…… 38 Cases about Taking Advantage of Modern Industrial Heritage Science Museum Contributions to Rekindle it in China Aho Mikko, Rauma Maritime Museum, University of Turku, Finland…………………………………..…….……. 47 That ship was built by us”: constructing and presenting intangible and tangible industrial heritage Wyka Ewa, Jagiellonian University Museum, Poland…………………………………..…….….………………..…….. 54 Polish industrial heritage, its protection and interpretation Jozef Labuda, Slovak Mining Museum, Slovakia…………………………………………………………….….………… 58 Slovak Mining Museum in Banská Štiavnica and its technical monuments included on the UNESCO World Heritage List Stabrawa-Powęska Kinga, Saltworks Museum, Poland…….......................................................................................… 63 Creating a cultural identity through the heritage of technology–an inseparable relationship on the example of Wieliczka Ren Jie & Feng Xiaojing, China Science and Technology Museum, China…………………………..………..……. 74 The Advancement of Scientific Culture in Cultural Landscapes—A Study of the Pattern of Relating Scientific and Industrial Heritage with Science and Technology museums in China 3 45th Conference, Rabat, Morocco 5-8 december 2017 Ensen Jacob Thorek, Danish Museum of Science & Technology………………………………………………........… 81 Museums as People’s Places: Making exhibition-processes based on inclusiveness and multivocality Holopainen Elina , Head of Collections, Finnish Railway Museum, Finland…………………………...…...….… 86 Saving Today for Tomorrow - Documenting Hyvinkää Railway Workshop Burchardt Jørgen, Researcher, National Museum of Science & Technology, Denmark…………........………… 89 There must be money in the bank: Contemporary documentation for museums of technology Irena Marušič & Estera Cerar, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Slovenia………………….......................………… 99 Knowledge without frontiers Isabelle Proux, Centre National des Arts & Métiers, France……………………………………………………...……… 104 The French Museum of Arts & Metiers, a major player of scientifiques and technical culture Kluza Maciej, Jagiellonian University Museum, Poland…………………...……..……………………..………………. 110 Traveling exhibitions as a method of promotion of the scientific heritage Danka Subova, Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology, Slovakia……………….…….....……….. 117 New Forms and New Themes in Popularization of Scientific Knowledge Following Environment Shuo Jia, China Science and Technology Museum, China………………………..……….........................….....……… 122 Study on the Protection and Utilization of Technical Heritage in the Construction and Renovation of Dome Theatre in Science Museum The conference photos report………………..…………………………………………………………………….......................…133 4 45th Conference, Rabat, Morocco 5-8 december 2017 CIMUSET, the first time in AFRICA The 2017 CIMUSET annual conference was held for the first time, and for our greatest honour, in an African country: in Rabat City, a World Heritage site and the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco. We were very pleased to welcome our friends and colleagues, in Telecommunication Museum of Maroc Telecom and the Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research. Participants came from thirteen counties: Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Morocco, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. CIMUSET 45th Conference debated around a topical theme witch concerns all technical-scientific museums and science centres in the world: “Technical Heritage & Cultural Identity”. It was noted that this topic stimulated a particular interest among CIMUSET 2017 participants. This conference was a real forum of exchanging different ideas about the relationship between technical heritage and our different cultural identities. Discussions were very rich between participants and also with Moroccan students in cultural heritage who participated in this conference as volunteers. The opportunity was given to our colleagues to shear their professional experiences and especially their success stories in the promotion and interpretation of their technical heritage. Our guests spent also an intense moment, during our “extra muros" activities, in discovering and enjoying the richness and diversity of the Moroccan ancestral heritage. I wish you a pleasant reading of CIMUSET 2017 conference publication. See you in our next conference in Ottawa, Canada, October 2018. Ech cherki DAHMALI CIMUSET Chairperson Director of Telecommunication Museum of Maroc Telecom 5 45th Conference of CIMUSET International Committee for Museums & Collections of Science & Technology 45th Conference, Rabat, Morocco 5-8 december 2017 “Technical heritage & Cultural Identity” CIMUSET 2017 Conference Them Industrialisation, infrastructure constructions and housing projects have destroyed many historical sites and started transforming many landscapes and effectively delete significant industrial and technical heritage. The majority of former industrial sites have been rebuilt as commercial buildings or became residential areas with no association with previous functions and times. Hopefully, some sites of this valuable technical heritage have been preserved as open air museums trying to preserve and represent the forgotten glory of industrial times through different conservation efforts and exhibition plans. CIMUSET 2017 conference theme is composed by two significant expressions: - Technical Heritage: it refers to the physical remains of the history of technology and industry, old factories, mining sites, water-powered mills, warehouses as well as power and transportation infrastructure... - Cultural Identity: most common definitions of Cultural Identity presented it as a feeling of being included to a group or culture. According to those definitions, we can have the following questions: - Do we have any sympathetic felling towards technical and industrial heritage? - How can technical heritage be a part of our cultural identity? - Can we consider technical heritage equally important as the other cultural heritage elements (Archaeology, Ethnography, Natural Science…)? The conference theme referred also to a factual situation of the “colonial” technical heritage in many countries. In fact, during military occupations, different industrial constructions and infrastructures were built by “others” nations (especially in the end of the 18th- 19th century and between the 1st & 2nd world war). The question is: can we consider this legacy as a part of our identity, although we know that independence was peaceful in some areas, and achieved only after a protracted revolution and armed confrontation in other areas. In other words: How can we change this connotation from a “colonial” heritage to a National Heritage? 7 45th Conference, Rabat, Morocco 5-8 december 2017 Scientific committee Abdelmalek AZIZI Professor, Univ. Mohamed 1 Oujda, Morocco Ech cherki DAHMALI Director, Maroc Telecom Museum Rabat, Morocco Juliette RAOUL DUVAL Curator, Musée des Arts & Métier Paris, France Jytte THORNDAHL, Vice-Dircetor, Danish Museum of Energy Aarhus, Denmark Johanna VÄHÄPESOLA, Head of Exhibitions and Learning, Museum of technology Helsinki,
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