The science museums as a means of communication and their role in the knowledge society

Science museums (MC -museus de ciencies) have acquired a key role in today's society. Rapid scientific and technological development is present in all of our lives, and ordinary people require instruments to help them approach what may seem to them to be an incomprehensible language. The Public Communication of Science (CPC -Comunicacio Publica de la Ciencia) is a tool which contributes to this relationship and, within which, science museums constitute an irreplaceable element to mediate between science and society. Already accustomed to the educative and informative role of science museums, the following article seeks to define them as a medium of communication because of their characteristics and their evolution.