MaILHoC: Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration

《博物馆与工业：长期合作的历史》（MaILHoC）的出发点是科学、技术和医学博物馆（STM遗产）处于剧变状态。STM遗产是工业革命的产物；如果没有工业的赞助，它就不会存在。但是，去工业化的进程，对人类对环境影响的担忧，以及诸如去生长运动等思想的影响，使这种关系变成了争议的来源。为什么这么长的历史直到最近才被认为是不道德的呢？通过研究这一现象，MaILHoC直接回应了“从历史的角度探索文化遗产、民主价值观和政治之间的关系”的挑战。它研究了文化遗产的叙事是如何以及由谁在不同的背景下产生、使用和传播的。迄今为止，虽然有关于工业赞助科学的研究，但几乎没有关于STM遗产的工业赞助。MaILHoC通过研究来自法国、西班牙和英国的案例来解决这一重大缺陷。根据这一分析，我们将：(i)描述对工业赞助的历史态度；（ii）探讨新方法的实际或可能的后果；（iii）探索现有实践的隐含规范性，（iv）分析STM遗产中伦理的制度化。MaILHoC的大学、博物馆和出版商联盟将通过广泛的学术、公共和媒体渠道传播一系列跨学科的研究成果。虽然道德困境永远无法最终解决，但MaILHoC将产生新的理解，并建立我们的社会能力，以便更好地了解STM遗产与其工业赞助人之间的关系，并更具参与性。

The starting point of Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration (MaILHoC) is that museums of science, technology, and medicine (STM heritage) are in a state of upheaval. STM heritage is a child of the industrial revolution; it would not have existed without the patronage of industry. But processes of deindustrialisation, concerns about human impacts on the environment, and the influence of ideas like the degrowth movement, have turned this relationship into a source of controversy. Why does it seem that this long history has only recently been considered unethical? By examining this phenomenon, MaILHoC responds directly to the challenge to 'explore the relationship between cultural heritage, democratic values, and politics in a historic perspective.' It examines how and by whom narratives about cultural heritage are produced, used, and communicated in different contexts. To date, while there have been studies of the industrial patronage of the sciences, there is almost nothing on the industrial patronage of STM heritage. MaILHoC addresses this substantial lacuna by examining case studies from France, Spain, and the UK. Drawing on this analysis we will: (i) describe historical attitudes towards industrial patronage; (ii) explore the actual or likely consequences of new approaches; (iii) explore the implicit normativity of existing practices, and (iv) analyse the institutionalisation of ethics in STM heritage. MaILHoC's consortium of universities, museums and publishers will disseminate a range of interdisciplinary research outputs through a wide variety of scholarly, public and media channels. While ethical dilemmas cannot ever be finally resolved, MaILHoC will both generate new understandings and build our social capabilities for a better informed, and more participative deliberation of the relationships between STM heritage and its industrial patrons.