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Following the example of the Exploratorium in San F rancisco, interactive science museums are meant to be informal and enjoyable places where visitors, re ga dless of their age and background, are stimulate d to practice their abilities to explore the world fr om a scientific point of view or to reacquire it in the case of adults who are far from science for professional re sons. Our study, which belongs to a relatively recent, bu t increasingly richer and complex tradition of researches on this topic, aims at contributing to a nswering the question whether, within the context o f hands-on museums, this desired reacquisition of sci entific exploration actually occurs for all visitor s; more precisely, it aims at contributing to the disc u sion resulting from this question with reference to both possible answers and methods to find them. The study described below was carried out for a Sci ence Communication Master thesis in Trieste (student: Monia Cardella, supervisor: Paola Rodari) and, therefore, it is inevitably limited: in fact, in order to deal with such a complex issue and to perf orm more detailed investigations on the field longe r time and more resources would have been necessary. However, both methods used and results obtained from it, although provisional, are significant enou gh to deserve our attention.

Science is not for me. Visitors’ attitudes to learning in an Italian science centre