CRESCO: Citizen Rescuers for Collections

When you visit a museum, what you see is its most prestigious collections, its latest research and its most successful researchers. You see the state of knowledge at a point in time. But only a tiny percentage of all curated collections are investigated and later put on display. Some specimens will probably never be studied or shown. How can we change that? How do museums create the conditions for knowledge to grow?
The citizen science project CRESCO Citizen Rescuers for Collections has set up to tackle this problem (Cresco, -ere means to grow, to prosper in Latin). As part of the first IMPETUS Accelerator for Citizen Science, a team of Belgian biology researchers and curators from the AfricaMuseum (Tervuren) and from the Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels) have joined forces with 26 citizen scientists to make collection data accessible.
More information on CRESCO: www.africamuse...
With the support of BELSPO.
CRESCO has received funding from the IMPETUS consortium and is part of the IMPETUS Accelerator for Citizen Science program.