
%0 Journal Article
%A Bryant, Chris 
%A Gore, Mike 
%A Stocklmayer, Sue 
%T The Australian Science Centre Movement 1980&#x2013;2000: Part 1&#x2014;<i>Questacon</i>, the National Science and Technology Centre
%J Historical Records of Australian Science
%D 2015/11/13
%V 26
%N 2
%P 122-132
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HR15008
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR15008 
%X Part 1: Scholarly concerns over science communication and in particular public attitudes towards and engagement with science have continued for almost half a century, but the establishment of a &#x2018;hands-on' science centre in Canberra in 1980 put practice ahead of theory and led to the building of Questacon&#x2014;the National Science and Technology Centre in 1988. The driving force behind this development was Australian National University physicist Dr Mike Gore. Funding came from the Australian and Japanese Governments&#x2014;the latter a bicentennial gift&#x2014;and a team of &#x2018;explainers' at the centre helped visitors to appreciate that this science centre was not a museum but a place where science had a human face. 
