The twenty-second seminar Science Museum Leadership In A Post-truth Society: Building Science Capital at 10 a.m. on 05 December 2022 in room VeGa and will be also available online on Microsoft Teams platform following the link: https://bit.ly/3g4NXTf. The language of the seminar will be English.
About the guest
MA Mikko Myllykoski is CEO of Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre. Heureka is a national landmark in Finland: it is the most visited (300,000 annually) museum, and recently it was judged as having the best image among all the leisure time destinations in Finland. Heureka’s interactive exhibitions travel worldwide, and they've been experienced by close to 30 million people in 25 countries on four continents.
Mikko Myllykoski received State Prize for Information in 1997 as project manager for the exhibition “Nordic Explorers”, which toured Europe in 1996–1998. He has published about history, museology and science engagement. In the name of Heureka, he was the recipient of the Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience for the exhibition “Heureka Goes Crazy” (renamed “Mental Health: Mind Matters” on its tour in North America) at the annual conference of ASTC, Association for Science-Technology Centers, in 2014. This exhibition is still on tour, and is at the moment in Museum of Science, Boston, USA.
Mikko Myllykoski is a historian by training and he has worked in multisensory science engagement since 1990. He has chaired the conference program committees of two most important international conferences (ASTC and ECSITE) on science engagement. He has also chaired the Finnish Association for Science Editors and Journalists in 2014–2016. Myllykoski is the chair of the newly found national network of Finnish science centers.
On behalf of the organisers,
Prof. habil. Dr Remigijus Čiegis