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Category Archives: Exhibitions
Hidden Histories 2013
A couple of years ago we, the museum group, collectively put together a case of objects designed purely to show of the diverse range of artefacts our university holds. Everyone chose an object, wrote a blog post, filmed a youtube … Continue reading
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Bragg Day
Saturday 23rd March 2013 was Bragg day at the University of Leeds. In preparation for this day of activities and lectures we brought together academics with an interest in X-ray crystallography from across the University – from history of science, our … Continue reading
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New & improved: science without heroes
Exhibitions evolve. Our draft outline, posted a few weeks ago was what we thought we’d show, but then we tried it in the space and it needed a little more. A few additions, some corrections, the odd tweak here and … Continue reading
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Science without heroes
On Friday 18th January 2013, Leeds University will host the second in a three part series of workshops on ‘Public Science’ organised by the Science Museum and iPUP (Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past). As part of the … Continue reading
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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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Understanding the past
Just over a week ago, I attended the first of three events, organised by ipup (the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in York), the Science Museum in London and us (ie the University of Leeds). This first … Continue reading
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Astronomical Slides
Further research into the museum’s hand-painted astronomy slides (c.1850) reveals that they were almost certainly made by the British optical and scientific instrument makers, Carpenter & Westley. These images of Carpenter & Westley slides on an online auction site match … 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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Tagged health, NHS, posters, public information, public science
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