"The Science Museum will serve to make Gipuzkoa's reality better known."
"The Science Museum will serve to make Gipuzkoa's reality better known."
Where does the idea of making a Science Museum come from?
In the early 1990s a group of friends, mostly made up of university professors, began working on the impulse of the science museum. This group prepared a draft, proposed to the City Council, the Provincial Council... They belonged to the Zientzia XXI group. Kutxa, for his part, decided in 1996 that it was time for a new social work. During the analysis of the different alternatives the preliminary project of the Zientzia XXI group was known. After talking to them, Kutxa decided to create a Science Museum based on the preliminary project of Zientzia XXI.
And how did you get the direction of the Science Museum?
Two and a half years ago they offered me and I told them yes. Along with my work I have done radio programs in the form of a hobby: 180 For 8-9 years on SER radio, for 4 years I did outreach sessions on Onda Cero at the national level, I am currently on Radio Popular, Radio Vitoria. In addition to radio programs, I have published articles of all kinds in all kinds of publications. I am a member of the Spanish Association of Scientific Journalists, I have participated in numerous seminars... I do not know, I counted them once and I believe that I will have published about 500 articles. As for the responsibility with the Science Museum, it is a great challenge for me, because what I did as a hobby has now become a daily work, for me it is ideal, terrible. I have to do what I like and get paid.
Why has construction been greatly delayed?
The delay has been over a year, yes, especially with construction problems, as the rest is ready. We had a lack of staff, because in the construction there has been a huge boom.
What does the museum bring to the Basque Country, Gipuzkoa, San Sebastian...?
Well, as there is no more, it gives the Basque Country the opportunity to be a science museum, in an informal and playful way, to educate in science. And Gipuzkoa, who we are going to have concrete things from here, will allow him to make the reality of here better known. We have to try to get things from the companies in Gipuzkoa and the Basque Country to see what companies and universities are doing, and especially those in Gipuzkoa. For San Sebastian, finally, it can be an opportunity to strengthen tourism. San Sebastian, with San Telmo, the Aquarium, the Kursaal and the Science Museum, can offer an attractive tourist offer that complements the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Will it bring something to science?
Scientific dissemination mainly affects science from an exclusively educational point of view. We don't want to be a passive museum, we want to put what people want to know, pick up people's opinion... for this we have an agreement with the UPV/EHU, with the Department of Didactics, to find gaps, collect people's opinion and how to make what becomes more attractive. From this point of view we will conduct a pedagogical research along with disclosure.
Continue with the slogan "Forbidden not to touch".
Yes, we know it's copy, but it's nice. It was taken out by the Exploratorium of San Francisco and the rest of the museums of the world we have copied it in some way, logically adapted.
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