Educational Role of the Science Museum in the Scientific Translation Classroom

Abstract

The present paper is an example of the role that plays now the Science Museum in the translation classroom. We will explain some aspects of an Innovative Project develop in the Science Museum of Granada as a new space for translation and accessibility studies. Our goal was the creation of a prototype of multilingual guide in order to make accessible the objects exhibited in the “Pavilion of the Human Body” at the Science Museum of Granada. We study two sections of the Pavilion: the one on the nervous system and the one on the reproductive system. The methodology was based on the new socio-constructivist theories that help our students in the translation process. And the conclusion is that the museum is conceived of not as an educational institution in the same way as schools or the university, but as a medium or instrument for the ongoing education of the citizenry.