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The Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI) has just opened its Waywiser website. As of today it only contains 764 records out of the total of 20,000 objects in the collection, but the database is growing with a few hundred records every month; CHSI Director Peter Galison says (in a circulated email on Mersenne) that they will also add films and archival material […]

Our collection and display activities are again and again putting the issue of aesthetics on the medical museum agenda. How do we handle the ‘aesthetic dimension’ of medical objects in curatorial practices? I came to think of this question again when I read yet another laudatory review of Sansernes Hospital [Hospital of the Senses] by renowned Danish architect journal editor Kim Dirckinck-Holmfeld and professor […]

At the weekly staff meeting today we discussed our experiences from the ‘Archaeology-of-contemporary-biomedicine-garbage-day’ last Thursday (see earlier post with pics here). Here are some of the points that came up in the discussion: We were happily surprised by the interest and generosity that researchers and technicians at the medical faculty showed for the collection project; i.e., people were expecting us, they […]

(for our Danish/Scandinavian readers): Our acquisitions curator, Søren Bak-Jensen, has written a set of guidelines for the acquisition of contemporary medical objects into the collections, including a list of FAQ’s (so far in Danish only). Comments are welcome, either directly to Søren or below: 

Isabelle Dussauge’s interesting comment to the earlier post on magical value of collections disappeared in some temporary spam comment box for a whole month — so we’ve reissued it below. Sorry for the fuzz, Isabelle!

Universeum meeting, Strasbourg, 22-24 June 2006 First announcement: Inventorying and preserving university collections – what for? During the last few years, due to a significant rise in concern about academic heritage, special attention has been given to university museums and collections. Numerous initiatives have emerged all over Europe, mainly focused on building databases, i.e. inventories […]

Det gennemgribende tema for de faglige indlæg var industriens år i 2007. Men der blev også plads til næste års tema; Renæssancen, og meget kort omkring emnet deaccesionering. Programmet var tæt booket med indlæg til kl. 22 onsdag og fra 9 – 19 torsdag. Om end at overskrifterne ikke lød særligt lovende, så var der […]

Organisationen Danske Museers faglige orienteringsmøde er et fælles møde for alle danske kulturhistoriske museer, der finder sted én gang om året.
Mødet forløber over 2 dage og er delt op i et fælles møde, hvor bestyrelsen aflægger beretning fra det forgangne år, samt forventninger til fremtiden. Herudover en debat af høj aktuelle emner.

Tim Boon på Science Museum har lige gjort opmærksom på at den brittiske Museums Association i sidste uge publicerede deres rapport Collections for the Future: “a report aiming to restate the place of collections at the centre of what museums do and highlight the struggle museums have to support those collections … The report is […]

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