Friday, May 30, 2008  Museums From The Other Side Of The Pond:
An Interview With Harry White  After serving for many years as
the Director of Exhibits, Harry White is now the "Science Centre
Consultant" at TechniQuest Science Center (also known as TQ) in
Cardiff, Wales. I've had the pleasure of visiting Harry in
Wales, and I've always been interested in the different take
that our museum colleagues in the UK and Europe have on
interactive exhibits and science centers (or "centres"!) I
thought readers of the ExhibiTricks blog could benefit from
Harry's responses to my interview questions:  What’s your
academic background?  An electronics degree, a spell as a
medical physicist followed by a Masters in Laser Anemometry and
12 years in a university engineering faculty sticking computers
on anything that needed it, or often didn’t. Then 23 years in
Techniquest. As you can see I’m still waiting for a proper job.
How/Why did you get started in Museums? I was happily vegetating
at the University when a memo came aro