Les collections des musées de sciences et de techniques conservent et exposent des instruments et des machines qui incorporent en eux une histoire du travail fait de gestes professionnels et inscrit dans une culture corporelle spécifique. Ce patrimoine immatériel des savoir-faire n’est pourtant pas systématiquement conservé et demeure donc largement à la marge des politiques de valorisation patrimoniale que mènent les conservateurs et les commissaires d’exposition du patrimoine scientifique et technique. Le public n’a donc qu’un accès restreint à ce savoir implicite
et contemple des objets sans saisir dans toute leur dimension les relations complexes et intriquées qui se tissent entre patrimoine matériel et immatériel.

What work for what object?  Gestures, savoir-faire and body culture in museums of science and technology

SUNDAY, 8 October

13.00 - Visit to the exhibition Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France and performance MOF en scène : des mots et des mains with Didier Ruiz
15.00 - Welcome Address: Yves Winkin (Musée des arts et métiers)

From use to production

15.15 - Tim Boon (Science Museum): From Histories of Use to Gestures of Making
16.00 - Keynote 1
Otto Sibum (Uppsala University): Gestural knowledge
18.00 - Laura Ronzon (Leonardo da Vinci) and Francesco Clerici: A cinema evening. Handle with care. The Story of an Object

MONDAY, 9 October

Re-enactment/reconstruction

9.30 - Marta Ajmar (V&A museum): Encounters of the Shop Floor
11:00 - Panel 1: Making visible the invisible technicians
- Alexandra Rose and Jane Desborough (Science Museum): London Science City: a gallery in the making
- Kristen Frederick-Frost (National Museum of American History): Much ado about the dew of death: the past and current work practices revealed by a collection of chemical agents
- Hans Hooijmaijers (Museum Boerhaave): Challenges towards a new museum
13.30 - News Update from all Museums
14.30 - Artefacts news, website and publications   
16.00 - Panel 2: Technical gesture and learning practices
- Arnaud Dubois (Musée des arts et métiers): How to understand engineering sciences with the techniques of the body: The case of the bridges collection of the Musée des arts et métiers explained by circus acrobatics
- Cathleen Lewis (National Air and Space Museum): The Future of the Spacesuit Glove: Gestures, Multinational Crews and Engineers
- Artemis Yagou (Deutsches Museum): Between Play and Work: developing professional skills and attitudes through construction toys
17.30 - Workshop: mini-MOF
Making and knowing technical gesture in the museum

TUESDAY, 10 October

Body culture and intangible heritage

9.00 - David Pantalony (Canada Science and Technology Museum): The Surgical Touch: Exhibiting Medicine Beyond the Historic Instruments
- Simona Casonato (Leonardo da Vinci): « See the ionization with your mind ». Narrated gestures in the contemporary particle physics: an experiment in intangible heritage study
- Katherine Ott (National Museum of American History): 19^th-Century Stomach Pumps and the Art of Moving Fluids
- Lionel Dufaux (Musée des arts et métiers): Should incorporated technical gestures be looked for in technical collections? The case of the railway collections of the Musée des Arts et Métiers 
11.30 - Keynote 2
Klaus Staubermann (National Museums Scotland): From Material Culture to Maker Culture - or how can we can bring ‘things’ back to life
12.30 - Concluding Address
Yves Winkin (Musée des arts et métiers) and Tim Boon (Science Museum)