Maarten Okkersen (Museon, The Hague, Netherlands) is the Guest Editor of this diverse issue on New technologies. These days, science museums and science centres are increasingly acting as knowledge brokers, promoting and facilitating enquiry-based learning and citizen science in the information society of today. We operate right at the cutting edge of these fields and are important intermediaries in the process of transformation.

Together with our visitors, we seek to gauge the significance of new technologies, define our relationship to technology and shape our human identity. Technology is constantly changing and doing so at an ever-increasing pace;nevertheless, it will remain more than ever an inherent part of the human condition.

Read more in the full PDF version, available here: www.ecsite.eu/news_and_events/quarterly_newsletters/new-technologies