Pacific Science Center

Pacific Science Center will partner with a history and an art museum to expand a program, Portal to the Public, that trains scientists and researchers to engage with the public in science museum settings. The expanded program will explore how to bring STEM professionals and visitors together in history and art museums and, conversely, how artists and historians can fit within the programmatic offerings of science museums. The project tackles a new approach to learning which brings these seemingly disparate areas together in a holistic way in order to understand, address, and solve real work challenges in the 21st century. The museum partners will adapt the Portal to the Public framework, provide professional development to STEM and humanities professionals, test new cross-disciplinary engagement events, and publish disseminate a new guide for use by the museum field. The project will enhance museum professionals' capacity to effectively partner with cross-disciplinary professionals in STEM, art, or history fields and successfully create related programming that helps achieve their institution's mission and desired impacts.