The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10600 - Biological sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

JAN 28

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

40

Strana od-do

e8225

Kód UT WoS článku

000509661400002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85084308463