Musée scientifiquevignette|Expérience d'éclair artificiel au Science Museum de Boston. Les musées scientifiques sont des musées consacrés principalement aux sciences et aux techniques, à distinguer des muséums plus particulièrement consacrés à l'histoire naturelle. Historiquement, ils présentent des collections fixes d'œuvres ou d'objets liés à la géologie ou encore à l'industrie. La tendance actuelle des musées modernes est d'élargir les sujets et de proposer de nombreuses expériences didactiques ou interactives.
Science festivalA science festival is a festival that showcases science and technology with the same freshness and flair that would be expected from an arts or music festival and primarily targets the general public. These public engagement events can be varied, including lectures, exhibitions, workshops, live demonstrations of experiments, guided tours, and panel discussions. There may also be events linking science to the arts or history, such as plays, dramatised readings, and musical productions.
Science educationScience education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education includes work in science content, science process (the scientific method), some social science, and some teaching pedagogy. The standards for science education provide expectations for the development of understanding for students through the entire course of their K-12 education and beyond. The traditional subjects included in the standards are physical, life, earth, space, and human sciences.
Public awareness of sciencePublic awareness of science (PAwS) is everything relating to the awareness, attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. This concept is also known as public understanding of science (PUS), or more recently, public engagement with science and technology (PEST). It is a comparatively new approach to the task of exploring the multitude of relations and linkages science, technology, and innovation have among the general public.
