This volume aligns with SLSA’s interdisciplinary focus, particularly its interest in the intersections of artistic and scientific knowledge, material culture, and interdisciplinary practices.
What Curators Know: Art and Science in the Museum
Edited by Hannah Star Rogers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: August 6, 2026
Format: Hardback, 488 pages
ISBN: 9798765162088
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
What Curators Know: Art and Science in the Museum explores how curators create, organize, and communicate knowledge across the boundaries of art, science, and technology. Bringing together international curators and scholars, the volume examines exhibitions and collections as sites of knowledge production, showing how curatorial practices shape public understandings of science, technology, and culture. Drawing on Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) and interdisciplinary approaches to museums, the book offers new perspectives on curatorial expertise, materiality, and the role of exhibitions in making knowledge visible and accessible.