The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F20%3A00521128" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/20:00521128 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://peerj.com/articles/8225.pdf" target="_blank" >https://peerj.com/articles/8225.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.8225</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
Original language description
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich communities of amateurs, students, and researchers at all stages of their careers, they can provide a place-based window to focus on integration of science and discovery, as well as a locus for community engagement. The global community of museums (the 'Global Museum') is more than the sum of its parts, allowing insights and answers to diverse biological, environmental, and societal questions at the global scale, across eons of time, and spanning vast diversity across the Tree of Life. We argue that natural history collections and museums are now increasingly leveraged in new ways that significantly expand their impact and relevance. These new directions include the possibility to ask new, often interdisciplinary questions in basic and applied science, such as in biomimetic design, and by contributing to solutions to climate change, global health and food security challenges. Here we explore how the intersections between pressing issues in environmental and human health and rapid technological innovation have reinforced the relevance of museum collections. We also identify challenges to the realization of the full potential of natural history collections and the Global Museum to science and society and discuss the critical need to grow these collections. We then focus on mapping and modelling of museum data (including place-based approaches and discovery), and explore the main projects, platforms and databases enabling this growth. Finally, we aim to improve relevant protocols for the long-term storage of specimens and tissues, ensuring proper connection with tomorrow's technologies and hence further increasing the relevance of natural history museums.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10600 - Biological sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PeerJ
ISSN
2167-8359
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JAN 28
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
40
Pages from-to
e8225
UT code for WoS article
000509661400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85084308463