Scientific heritage and tourism, the site issue: construction, usages and public. Final report for the Mission for ethnology, Ministry of Culture, November 2003

In this study of the importance of the scientific heritage, of the commitment of scientists in its valorisation, and on the public and audience of some specific scientific sites (museums, sites of an actual scientific activity), the authors notably focussed on the case of the Curie museum (in Paris) by describing how this institution has been created, its cultural and touristic offer, and also on the historical dimension of Zoe, the first French atomic pile. They also shed a light on the different figures of Marie Curie, and how they are presented and addressed for the audience by building up a relationship between scientific and literary heritage.