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The aim of this paper is to describe the generation of as well as theexperiences made with an exhibition that was presented in spring 1998 in the Oldenburg Museumof Natural History and Pre-History. The thematic leitmotiv of thisexhibition was to present experiments from the history of physics as a cultural activity. In doing so, reconstructionsof historical experimental set-ups were not only shown but enabled the visitors to make their own experimentalexperiences with these apparatus.
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Heering, P., Müller, F. Cultures of Experimental Practice – An Approach in a Museum. Science & Education 11, 203–214 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014483404018
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