Participatory Experiences as a New Way to Access Conservation Data in Museum Contexts

This article seeks to describe two possible solutions to enhance the general public’s access to conservation data in cultural institutions. The display of these assets in museums still relies on outdated paradigms: As a matter of fact, analyses of conservation scientists are often presented to visitors in a top-down approach, in which the visitor is guided to read and interpret the scientific datum. Alternatively, visitors are given no support and are expected to retrieve by themselves the pieces of knowledge documented by conservation data