Resumen de Els museus de ciències com a mitjans de comunicació i el seu paper en la societat del coneixement
Nancy Patricia Castellanos Pineda
Science museums (MC — museus de ciències) have acquired a key role in today’s society. Rapid scientific and technological development is present in all of our lives, and ordinary people require instruments to help them approach what may seem to them to be an incomprehensible language. The Public Communication of Science (CPC — Comunicació Pública de la Ciència) is a tool which contributes to this relationship and, within which, science museums constitute an irreplaceable element to mediate between science and society. Already accustomed to the educative and informative role ofscience museums, the following article seeks to define them as a medium of communication because of their characteristics and their evolution.
