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ADVICE Exhibition
Below. Visitors looking at a lung model Right. Visitors to the exhibition cinema
The Francis Crick Institute has opened Outwitting Cancer – Making Sense of Nature’s Enigma, an immersive exhibition and the first to take place within a working science laboratory, home to cancer scientists from across the world. Here, Exhibitions Manager Hana Dethlefsen talks through the launch.
IMAGES: FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE
I understand this been in the pipeline for a while? Yes – this exhibition was meant to open in 2020, but was delayed by about a year. In the meantime, the Manby Gallery was used as a vaccination centre, where more than 80,000 members of the public were vaccinated against COVID-19, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer. Why does the Crick put on exhibitions? Public engagement is one of the Crick’s strategic objectives. Now, more than ever, it’s important for scientific institutions to be transparent about the process of science and to build trust with the public. It’s important to show how science is done, how we generate evidence, how
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