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Handling collections
Museum Practice have this month been exploring the role of touch in museums, and the various ways in which handling collections can be developed and used. To promote the work of our museum in this area, Liz Stainforth and I … Continue reading
Exhibition training and participant observation
Members of the taskforce benefit from the opportunity to attend training sessions on various aspects of museum practice. A few weeks ago, Claire, Emily and Mark led a session that served as an introduction to exhibition planning and installation. It … Continue reading
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Public information posters
Within the museum’s history of education collection there is a selection of mid-20th century public health posters. A small subset of these will fill one of the display cases in our Public science: ‘Science in the Real World’ exhibition. Earlier … Continue reading
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Earth Education at Leeds: The Whole World in a Ray of Light
The presence of our museum project on campus has recently increased, with the installation of a new display in the School of Earth and Environment. The display, Earth Education at Leeds: The Whole World in a Ray of Light, is … Continue reading
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Tagged alidade, display, Ernst Abbe, geology, microscope, refractometer, School of Earth and Environment
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Magic Lantern and Light Night Project
Earlier this week I finished creating a basic inventory of the magic lantern slides from the history of education collection. As well as being a step towards getting the store more organised, the aim was to gather information on the … Continue reading
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Legacies of War Open Evening, 28th June 2012
Legacies of War (http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar) is a project which commemorates the upcoming centenary of the duration of the First World War, which will take place from 2014 to 2018. The project will explore the legacy of this war, covering five main … Continue reading
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Year 12 Object-Handling Activity
Yesterday morning, surrounded by our displays in the Gillinson room, a group of roughly 20 lower-sixth form students had the opportunity to work with some objects from the museum’s medical collection. This session formed part of their visit to the … Continue reading
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Microtomes and modelling; the His-Ziegler Chick Embryo Series
The models I have been researching belong to what would have been an 18-part series showing the chick embryo, and also specific parts of the embryo, e.g. the heart and the brain, during the first four days of development. Like … Continue reading
