Unexpected Alliances: How Collaborative Approaches to Scientific Heritage Shape Visitors’ Scientific Worldviews

16:20 — 17:30 (May 22)
Moscow Museum
Cinema

#museum_and_science

Panel Discussion

Contemporary education is undergoing a profound transformation under the growing complexity of knowledge. School and university curricula increasingly focus on developing specialized skills and competencies, often at the expense of a holistic worldview. In this context, science museums unexpectedly emerge as rare spaces where understanding the world as an interconnected whole remains possible.
By engaging with scientific heritage, visitors discover how physics relates to biology, how engineering emerges from philosophical inquiry, and how observation and logical thinking form coherent systems. Inter-museum collaborations preserve the notion of science as unified, self-evolving, and integral knowledge — maintaining learning environments where form and content remain intertwined, and narratives are built around logically connected philosophical statements about life’s wholeness, nature, and humanity.
In an era of fragmented experiences and algorithmic thinking, museums take on the mission of reconstructing an integrated worldview — one that acknowledges the continuity of scientific progress and its cultural connections. To sustain and develop this role, museums require an internal intellectual strategy: a deliberate selection of themes, formats, and partners.

• How to maintain scientific accuracy in artistic interpretations?
• Which approaches to scientific heritage work best for different age groups?
• Where to begin creating "unexpected alliances"?
• How to evaluate the effectiveness of inter-museum projects?

Moderator:
Tatyana Martynova, Editor-in-Chief, Muzey Magazine, Panorama Publishing House; Member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (CIMUSET), ICOM Russia; Board Member, Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society

Speakers:
Kirill Gavrilin, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts; Head of Art History and Humanities Department, Professor, Rector’s Advisor, Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
Irina Prokhorova, Director, Communication and Project Management Centre, Omsk State Pedagogical University; Member of ICOM Russia Presidium, ADIT Member
Elena Shilenkova, Advisor to the Director, HSE University — Nizhny Novgorod; Director, Architect’s House
Margarita Kozlova, Director, Department of Culture, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra