{"id":27302,"date":"2021-07-28T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cancerresearchuk.org\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:14:34","slug":"announcing-cancer-revolution-a-world-first-exhibition-to-engage-people-with-progress-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/announcing-cancer-revolution-a-world-first-exhibition-to-engage-people-with-progress-against-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing \u2018Cancer Revolution\u2019 \u2013 a world-first exhibition to engage people with progress against cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A sneak peak of the Cancer Revolution exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cLook, we can make bacteria interesting \u2013 just imagine what we can do with cancer biology!\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were the words of Sir Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum Group back in 2017 when we first spoke about the idea of creating a cutting-edge, world-first exhibition about cancer.<\/p>\n

Our research engagement team were looking for ways to talk about cancer science in stimulating and engaging ways, but knew that the science can sometimes come over as a bit impenetrable. In discussion with Ian and his team at the Science Museum, we got excited by the idea of an experience that would showcase the incredible scientific and medical progress we\u2019ve seen in recent decades and our optimism for the future, while also bringing out the enormous impact cancer has on those it affects, and the importance of continuing to make progress against the disease.<\/p>\n

Underpinning the idea was a belief shared by both organisations, that a public that is engaged with scientific progress is a public that is more supportive of science itself \u2013 something we have seen to be of huge importance lately<\/p>\n

National museums\u2019 thorough approach means developing an exhibition takes a while \u2013 and the pandemic hasn\u2019t helped \u2013 but today I\u2019m delighted to share the news that \u2018Cancer Revolution: Science, innovation and hope\u2019 will open its doors in October 2021 at Manchester\u2019s Science and Industry Museum<\/a>, before relocating to the Science Museum in London in May 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the exhibition\u2019s Expert Partner, we\u2019ve been working closely with the Science Museum Group\u2019s curators to help shape the exhibition, giving them access to our researchers and clinical experts, and the insights of our Involvement Network of people affected by cancer.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m incredibly excited to see the resulting exhibition, which will present the stories and experiences of those affected by cancer alongside the people who study and treat it, while taking visitors on a journey into some of the latest most cutting-edge research going on around the world.<\/p>\n

It will also put current cancer care into historical context, featuring a range of objects, new artist commissions and installations, film, and photography.<\/p>\n

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The exhibit will feature stories from those affected by cancer alongside the latest most cutting-edge research going on around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cancer Revolution comes at an important time for those who work to keep cancer on the public agenda. Quite understandably, as well as having a huge impact on health services<\/a> around the world, and hindering scientific progress, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated headlines and public imagination. Yet cancer hasn\u2019t gone away and if anything, our work to beat it has become all the more urgent. Getting the spotlight back on cancer is a top priority for our community.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any silver lining to be found from the last year it\u2019s that, more than ever, the public truly recognise the power of science to shape society for the better. The development of vaccines against the coronavirus<\/a> is a chapter in history of which the research community can be immensely proud.<\/p>\n

So I hope that, with an exhibition like Cancer Revolution, we can connect people with an equally important, if unfinished, chapter in the story of humanity: our mission to overcome a disease that affects so many of us, and still claims too many lives too early.<\/p>\n

Iain Foulkes is Cancer Research UK\u2019s executive director of research and innovation<\/em><\/p>\n

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