The planned Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) visitors centre will serve to showcase both the organisation’s past and its current activities as well as to popularise science, engineering and technology to young people and the public in general. “The CSIR is an organisation that does very well but is little known to the general public,” CSIR group executive: strategic alliances and communication Dr Rachel Chikwamba pointed out to Engineering News Online. “So the purpose of the visitors centre is to make our work accessible to the public.” The centre will contain historical relics from the CSIR’s past as well as displays highlighting its current activities. There will also be displays and demonstrations to explain what science is all about. There will also be temporary exhibitions by different groups and disciplines of scientists, to explain their fields. In addition, there is a plan for programmes of guest lectures at the centre, by scientists both from within the CSIR and without.
Source: www.engineeringnews.co.za
CSIR’s planned visitors centre to stimulate interest in science and help redevelop campus
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