History of Science and Technology blog
The Polar Museum tested out co-curation for their recent exhibition – the varied team ensured that a wide cast of characters made an appearance in ‘The Year That Made Antarctica’. There’s just one month left to run of our current exhibition at the Polar Museum: The Year That Made Antarctica – People, Politics and the …
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I was recently interviewed on Radio 4 in a programme about the history of vivisection. You can listen to the programme here. Or, you can read an earlier blog post I wrote about the little brown dog here. Scenes from student life The seemingly innocuous statue of a small dog, in Battersea Park in London, …
This blog post was written following the Objects in Motion conference, held at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. We often imagine that museum objects end their lives when they enter a collection. At the Objects in Motion conference, there was much discussion over whether museum collections are alive, dead, or just resting. Often museum objects have been through …