Celebrating Tomorrow Today
Celebrating Tomorrow Today
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2006
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Sonja D. Schmid
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Sonja D. Schmid
本文介绍了莫斯科“人民经济成就展”原子能馆从1956年建成到1989年关闭的历史。分析的目的是要解开那种隐含在展馆参观者想象中的社会秩序。该文件提出，展馆的核能展览，作为技术进步的关键，不仅加强了对国家科学和技术潜力的认识，而且对苏联的政治愿景做出了重大贡献。本文以档案文献和出版物为基础，追溯了展馆任务的转变，并试图传达这些转变是如何反映预期参观者不断变化的观念的。此外，本文还探讨了这一历史案例研究如何与当代博物馆理论对话，以及如何使我们对科学和技术普及的作用有更好的理解。它解决了苏联和西方的方法之间的差异和相似之处，以公开展示科学和技术。虽然明显受到世界博览会传统的影响，但苏联模式的“约束游客的目光”似乎已经削弱了开始主导西方讨论的娱乐或消费等方面的相关性。参观者的普遍模式是热情的学习者，积极贡献者的建设一个共产主义社会的更大的项目。
This paper introduces the history of a unique museum of nuclear energy, the Pavilion for Atomic Energy at the ‘Exhibition of the Achievements of the People’s Economy’ (VDNKh) in Moscow, from its inception in 1956 to its closing in 1989. The analytical goal is to unpack the kind of social order that was implicit in the way visitors to the pavilion were envisioned. The paper proposes that the pavilion’s exhibitions on nuclear energy, staged as pivotal to technical progress, not only reinforced a vision of the country’s scientific and technological potential, but also contributed significantly to the Soviet political vision. Based on archival documents and published material, the paper traces shifts in the pavilion’s tasks, and attempts to convey how these shifts mirror changing concepts of the intended visitors. Moreover, the paper explores how this historical case study speaks to contemporary museum theory, and how this may qualify our understanding of the role of the popularization of science and technology. It addresses differences and similarities between Soviet and Western approaches to public displays of science and technology. While clearly influenced by the tradition of world fairs, the Soviet model of ‘disciplining the visitor’s gaze’ seems to have curtailed the relevance of aspects, such as entertainment or consumption, that started to dominate Western discussions. The prevalent model of visitors was that of enthusiastic learners, and of active contributors to the larger project of constructing a communist society.