The first chairman of NSCF was Per-Edvin Persson, long-time director of Finnish science centre Heureka.
The NSCF Scholarship also allows the science centre staff to travel to other member organizations (for training purposes).
NSCF is an associate member of ECSITE, the European Network of Science Centres and Museums.
[1] Currently, NSCF has members from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia and Latvia.
At the board meeting in February 2016, the NSCF governing board decided to create the status of honorary membership and nominate the first two honorary members for their active participation and long-standing support for the collaboration between Nordic and Baltic states.