The scientific variety show "Glitzern & Denken” combines art with science. In the Experimental Field of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, researchers share the stage with people performing variety art and music.
Inspired by the artistic and scientific salons of the 18th and 19th centuries, the science variety show wants to open up a new perspective on science and widen the audience. It aims to inspire science enthusiasts for art and art fans for science and thus promote exchange between both groups.
The project "Glitzern & Denken” is scheduled to run for 3 years. The variety show is developed jointly by artists and scientists in a co-design process. Project partners are the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the ensemble Salon Fähig and Wissenschaft im Dialog. The project is supported by the LOTTO Foundation Berlin.
In 2019 the German floating science center MS Wissenschaft will be on tour for four and a half months, starting mid-May in Berlin and stopping at several points in Germany. The topic of this interactive exhibition is “artificial intelligence” and deals with questions such as: How does artificial intelligence work? How will we manage cooperation between humans and machines in the future? What ethical issues will have to be considered?
Since 2002, the floating science center MS Wissenschaft has toured the waterways of Germany and Austria to carry its information to towns and citizens. The former barge, loaded with science and knowledge, offers its visitors an exhibition which focuses on the subject of the current German Science Year. The major objective is to draw attention to current scientific research and to encourage a lively dialogue between the world of science and the general public. The participating research institutes and universities provide the exhibits and thus use the opportunity to present their research to the public in unconventional ways. The project is implemented by Wissenschaft im Dialog on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
They provide climate regulation, trade routes and recreation – that’s right, seas and oceans! They are the theme of the current German Science Year and Science Station invites everybody to learn, participate and discover astonishing facts and features about them via its interactive exhibits. The guests may be travellers or deliberate visitors – since the display is set up at railway stations, it is open to everybody.
ScienceStation aims to enhance interest in science and is targeted to a broad public audience. The exhibition spaces are places where mobility and interconnectedness are omnipresent: railway stations. ScienceStation tours for several months each year, on average 40,000 visitors and several hundred school classes participate on the exhibitions in more than 10 different locations each year. Local and national research institutes contribute to the ScienceStation by developing and providing the exhibits. ScienceStation is a joint project of Wissenschaft im Dialog, Deutsche Bahn and several other partners.
Since 2000, each year, Wissenschaft im Dialog and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research jointly proclaim the Science Year, aiming to shed light on the major challenges of our society from a scientific perspective. Wissenschaft im Dialog runs several activities as parts of the 2020 Science Year, for instance the floating science center MS Wissenschaft.
