Abstract Museums of science and technology embody the potential to affect institutional change on issues of gender equality, actively shaping future practices. This article argues that alternative methods of storytelling, creative practice and collaboration with new partners are crucial in museum work; they both ensure representation and awareness of the diversity of gender and sexuality and promote the equality of marginalised groups. Using the Focus Gender initiative at the Technical Museum Vienna, Austria as a case study, the article explores concepts for queering museums to examine how the gap between extensive theory and missing practice can be closed. It asks how a queer reading and diversification of collections is possible – and by whom? How can multi-layered yet excluded forms of knowledge be documented in databases? This article offers innovative approaches and perspectives for engagement with gender, LGBTQI+ and activist movements in the context of museums of science and technology and beyond.

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贴标机和合成器：收集科技博物馆的酷儿知识

摘要 科技博物馆体现了在性别平等问题上影响制度变革的潜力，积极塑造未来的实践。本文认为，在博物馆工作中，讲故事、创造性实践和与新合作伙伴合作的替代方法至关重要；它们都确保对性别和性行为多样性的代表性和认识，并促进边缘化群体的平等。本文以奥地利维也纳技术博物馆的“聚焦性别”倡议为案例研究，探讨了酷儿博物馆的概念，以检验如何弥合广泛理论与缺失实践之间的差距。它询问如何对收藏品进行奇怪的阅读和多样化——以及由谁来实现？如何在数据库中记录多层但被排除在外的知识形式？本文提供了在科技博物馆及其他领域参与性别、LGBTQI+ 和激进主义运动的创新方法和观点。