In the past, it has been easy for us and many of our white, European, middle-class peers to consider museums and science centres as welcoming and inclusive places. When we enter a science centre gallery with all its hands-on exhibits featuring scientific principles just waiting to be discovered, it is tantalisingly easy to think that these spaces extend the same open invitation to everyone. Staring with this sentence, Marianne Achiam & Henriette T. Holmegaard from the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen explore gender exclusion mechanisms at work in museums and science centres in a new article for the Hypatia project. They also study how many of these institutions are in the process of renewing their perspective on what it means to be (gender)-inclusive.

Read the full article at Hypatia´s website.