Challenges and Opportunities for Giving Credit in Science Museums

This poster presents ongoing research on credit-giving and authorship in science museums, focusing on the limited visibility of the people who create interactive digital exhibits.

The work begins from a discrepancy observed in a local museum context: dome productions often include credit reels, while interactive digital exhibits are usually presented as anonymous institutional outputs, even when they are made by the same people. This opens up broader questions about labor, visibility, and how scientific knowledge is presented in public spaces.

The poster frames credit not only as something to be added at the end of a project, but as a representational and organizational challenge. It asks how museums might make the people and processes behind science communication more visible, and what role visualization could play in supporting this work.