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unfortunately kid science centers... aren't science museums

What rubbish. Just because they're not tailored for tertiary-educated engineers doesn't mean they're not science museums.

The comparison of 'art' vs 'science' museums is a load of horseshit anyway - museums are one of the places you go to art is formally presented. They're not where you go to formally present science or engineering.

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> museums are one of the places you go to art is formally presented. They're not where you go to formally present science or engineering.

Although generally true, there's the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the Air & Space Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. All these examples present something other than art works.

a science center is different from a science museum. i didn't say this difference was dependent on the formality of presentation.

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